Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Around a 60-ft. jacaranda wood table in Itamaraty Palace, the delegates gathered to announce the compromise resolution. His face ash-grey with disappointment, chainsmoking, Sumner Welles leaned forward with his head on three fingers of his left hand. From time to time he carefully mopped his forehead with a folded handkerchief. Chile's Rossetti continually and nervously smeared his hand over his sweaty face. Argentina's Ruiz Guiñazú clasped and unclasped his hands with a prayerlike gesture, toyed with a large ring on the third finger of his left hand...
...asked for in October was effectively curtailed at that time by Knudsen and the "business as usual" bloc in Washington. Fearing the great disturbance such a tremendous production program would cause in industry's life made the managers wish to dodge Uncle Sam's pointed finger. Despite Pearl Harbor's supposed unifying effect many of the most vital industries are not producing up to capacity. The machine tool industry, necessary to the production of defense material from airplanes to compasses, is operating at 64 per cent idleness. The Detroit District, the nation's center for the industry, has not been...
...carefully worded resume of Axis plans, promises and attacks, Sumner Welles explained the U.S. position. Mr. Welles gave figures on U.S. armament production: "45,000 military airplanes in the coming year; some 45,000 tanks; 600 merchant ships. ..." Señor Ruiz Guiñazú ran his finger around his collar...
...Treasury, Aniline has the Department of Justice on its flanks. Aniline's five ex-officers are already under indictment for conspiracy under the Sherman Act; Justice is meanwhile continuing a study of who owns it. Part of Aniline's troubles (and the Treasury's nervous trigger finger) are due to a jurisdictional fight between the two departments for control of alien properties. That fight will go on until Franklin Roosevelt names an Alien Property Custodian and defines his thankless duties...
...event of strafing: Yell, "Hi Yo, Silver!" point finger at plane and imitate the sound of rapid gunfire. Call the Fourth Interceptor Command and demand to know where the hell our Army and Navy...