Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their status falsely. They might even lose their cards. Suddenly remorseful, many a citizen hastened to return his high-rating card. In Nassau County, N.Y., citizens who thought it over coughed up 500 X cards. Motorcycle patrolmen stopped drivers, examined their cards. X and B card holders had to explain where they were going and why. Holders of A cards were not bothered...
...Kuecker gave some figures to help explain this dismal situation. Minimum supplies and equipment for each U.S. soldier landed abroad weigh 15 tons. A Liberty ship loads about 9,000 tons of cargo, or enough for about 600 men. A round-trip Pacific voyage takes 80-odd days...
Such facts help explain Britain's bull market, but throw little light on the U.S.'s bear market. Britain has been subjected to at least as much bad war news and as stringent war controls as has the U.S.-though the British tax system (no capital-gains tax, etc.) is less inimical to stockholders than the American. Many dopesters have given up rationalizing the divergence, assign it to a basic difference in the two nations' war psychoses. Britain, they say, profoundly believes that the war is being fought to preserve its economic institutions; the U.S. as profoundly...
...wide; had worked hard against the President, against England; often, before Pearl Harbor, advocated a negotiated peace. Stepping out of Joachim von Ribbentrop's plane in 1939, Fish opined that Germany's claims were "just." Two months ago he finally went before a District Court to explain his relations with George Sylvester Viereck, Nazi propaganda agent, and there let the blame fall on his secretary, George Hill, already in jail for perjury in the matter...
...Friday, May 8, and Saturday, May 9, Lt.-Col. Keough and other Air Force officers will be in Cambridge. Their purpose is to explain the Reserve Program to all who are interested, and to enlist as many as have made up their minds. Physicals will be given...