Word: exoduses
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...Nelson, WPB began to look like a second-string, errand-running organization. Who was in charge of WPB and U.S. war production-if anything was left of WPB after the general exodus? Was Donald Nelson still the boss? Or was OWM Czar Jimmy Byrnes? Or Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch? Or the President himself...
Pictures of the Class of '45 will start being taken some time soon in order to get all photographs finished before the exodus expected at the end of the semester...
...hold all of Italy, they feebly hoped that Mussolini's successors might be able to prevent the use of Italian air, naval and troop bases for continental attack. The Allies, determined to have these bases, warned Italians that all-out air raids were near, and precipitated a mass exodus from Italian cities. Spanish Fascists in Berlin, newspaper correspondents who until lately had written of coming German offensives, cabled Madrid newspapers that the Germans were now in extrema defensa (a last stand)-and that Nazi militarists now talked of a "wall of blood" around the shaken Reich...
...butchers and gas dealers, the men of learning are beating their breasts and saying their prayers. . . .[The war] has finally stopped the limitless expansion which created such chain stores of the intellect as California, Northwestern, Boston, Columbia and New York. . . . This blow should be considerably softened by the large exodus of vocational guides, scientific sociologists, and the professors of business administration . . . handshakers and promoters...
...home, and it is your farewell to me and those thousands like me who first entered your portals in a day of peace, eager to explore that ever broadening horizon which you offered. It is more your farewell than mine, for you know as I do that the exodus is all but complete. Those who enter in my departing footsteps will not see the vistas I saw. You have not shuttered your windows, yet vision is obscured; the scene has changed...