Word: expression
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer work in shifts last week. German incendiary bombs were falling too thick and fast, so the workers averaged 20 hours of fire fighting every day, snatched cat naps and quick gulps of food washed down by tea served hot in buckets right on the blazing job. In the Express, owned by Aircraft Production Minister Baron Beaverbrook, slick Columnist John MacAdam shamefacedly wrote of the Auxiliary Fire Service that before the Blitzkrieg began "we used to smile a little at them sometimes. 'The spit and polish firemen,' some people called them and there were others who used...
...Graduate School of Business Administration has no course requirements at all, but Dean Wallace B. Donham advises that students "should elect some courses in economics and should be able to express themselves clearly and concisely." All the graduate schools stress the ability to write good English...
...Minister was also jaunty. Although the House had had to adjourn for an hour during an air raid, Mr. Churchill's humor was intact. He began by paying his respects to his foe ("No doubt Herr Hitler will not like this transference of [U.S.] destroyers"), went on to express his confidence that Hitler's Empire would pass away more quickly than did Napoleon's Army ("although of course without any of its glitter and glory"). Then Winston Churchill got down to the point...
...days when he ran the Express and the Standard, the Beaver meets his committee heads in conference every afternoon. He presides lolling in a big chair. Every night at 11 o'clock (the hour when British dailies go to bed with their first editions) his secretary collects from each committee a full report of work done that day. Next morning Lord Beaverbrook reads these reports, then takes action. Example: one report told of a small Midlands manufacturer who was down in his output because of a shortage of certain classes of material and labor. A neighbor ing manufacturer...
...that he has stolen publicity from other Ministries with stunts such as his aluminum-collecting campaign, is tight with legitimate ministerial news. The Beaver says: "My job is to produce airplanes, not publicity." He picked his own public-relations man, silver-haired, hard-boiled J. B. Wilson of the Express, to filter news from his Ministry, not to funnel...