Word: explainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waterfront streets of San Francisco? There 1,700 machinists, denounced by Government and labor officials, were still on strike. Three weeks' work on almost half a billion dollars worth of naval vessels had already been lost. A Senate committee summoned hard-eyed Harry Hook, strike leader, to explain why. Senator Truman demanded to know whether he had heard the President's address. Said Hook: "No, I was busy on other matters." He hadn't read it either...
...Joyce '42, of Senior House and Gloucester, House Chairman, and other members of the Network will explain the operation of the broadcasting apparatus and conduct typical broadcasts at intervals throughout the day. A group of hostesses, under Miss Mary Whittier of Dover, will also be on hand to show the studios and welcome the guests. Visitors will be afforded an opportunity to make souvenir recordings of their voices at a nominal charge for discs...
...synthesis, it is easiest to produce gasoline (composed of lighter, simpler molecules), harder to produce fuel oil, hardest to produce lubricating oils and greases. For this reason, while Germany is moderately well off for gasoline, she is thought to be desperately short of the heavier oils. This would explain her eagerness to lay hands on every possible field of natural petroleum...
...Batt hastened to explain that what he might say or hear at NPA bullfests had no connection with what he did at his OPM desk...
...world waited anxiously last week for a word from the most promising source of information about Hess: Winston Churchill, who had promised to explain all to Parliament. But already it was evident that Hess's flight had disconcerted Germany too much for it to be an elaborate ruse; that he was no ordinary turncoat eager to aid his country's enemies, or the British would not have been so puzzled; that Hess's peace plan, if he had one, had not a slender chance of winning acceptance...