Word: franticness
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...consisting only of time actually spent in productive work; and 2) through retroactive provisions, throw all portal suits out of court. Few experts thought it would be that easy, or that the retroactive provisions would be constitutional. But other bills were being readied for the congressional hopper, in a frantic attempt to slam the door on portal pay. One of them would levy a 100% windfall tax on retroactive portal payments...
...this deadlock the nation made various frantic efforts to save itself...
...frantic weeks Dr. Franz collected plans and blueprints, experimental engine models. Just before the Russians arrived, ten big U.S. trucks swept into Dessau, gathered up the scientists, made two jampacked trips to the west...
...really brought to a sizzling boil by Preston Tucker, a small-time promoter with big ideas of making autos in the Chicago plant. He had agreed in September to lease it from the War Assets Administration. But NHA had ordered the plant to go to Lustron. In a frantic effort to block this, Tucker came up with a dark tale. His story: a lawyer approached him, just before the National Housing Administration ordered the plant turned over to Lustron, and promised to block the deal if Tucker 1) gave him $400,000 in stock in his company and 2) hired...
Almost as soon as penicillin was isolated, chemists tried to make it artificially. The job was tough, for the penicillin molecule is unstable and exceedingly complex. Frantic wartime efforts by the British and OSRD (Office of Scientific Research and Development) did much of the pioneer work; the Cornell group finished...