Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Bovingdon came to be a main economic analyst for OEW no one could quite explain; he had been recommended by Civil Service and "is doing a good job." But Martin Dies, hot on this obviously new and subtle subversion, was not to be deterred. He snorted: "If no action is taken [by OEW], I will bring the matter to the attention of Congress...
...will explain the whys & wherefores of rationing in simple language...
Western Electric at Kearny, N.J. has a new wrinkle for recruiting woman power: the resonant want ad. Housewives, not in the habit of reading want ads, hear their radios telling of Western Electric's needs at its Kearny factory. Over WOR, department representatives describe vacancies, explain qualifications, stress the importance of women relieving men for the fighting forces. Ex-housewives tell of earning while learning. Results: a weekly average of 30 housewives put to work for Western Electric...
...Department explained that the column had contained the writer's views on controversial political questions, and therefore had no place in an Army publication. The Department did not explain why this rule was not applied to Columnist Drew Pearson, who is also published in Roundup...
...thousand runs, wound up with 382 hits above par. In still another, a woman performing under the supervision of her husband scored 77 hits above chance in 3,600 tries. The result which put the biggest crimp in Rhine's theory (and which he makes no attempt to explain) is that, though his crapshooters did not try to throw sevens, sevens also came up more often than could be accounted for by chance...