Word: franticness
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...bring French women up to date on what has happened to the rest of the world in the past five years, Mme. Lazareff, in a frantic fortnight in Manhattan, gathered up data on postwar kitchens, Sinclair Lewis' Cass Timberlane (to run serially), news of Sinatra, Van Johnson and other wartime discoveries...
Delay, apparently, would be the Navy's final tactic. Forrestal has asked that the whole thing be "elevated" to a presidential commission. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Struve Hensel pleaded: "We see no reason for frantic rush." The Navy will recommend that the whole matter be given for final adjudication to an umpire committee. Presumably the Navy would accept its decision. Presumably it will also accept the decision of Congress, if one is made without calling in a new umpire...
Tears & Steaks. Shanghai is still China's biggest and most cosmopolitan city. But it has been isolated for years. Shanghai's frantic trading is all smalltime stuff-as though New York's retail stores were going like mad with no wholesaling, manufacturing or shipping. The national government probably will regard Shanghai as its wicked Wall Street and keep a firm hand on the city...
Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who had made a frantic, futile effort to bring Lewis and the coal operators together, got the news from the White House ticker, was charmed into commenting: "Greatly gratified. . . . I hope that other striking elements in industry will follow the footsteps. . . ." President Truman got the news from Lew Schwellenbach, said that he was "very happy...
...works we are committed . . . to a world united before this common peril. . . . What happened during the war . . . was not science, and its whole spirit was one of frantic and rather ruthless exploitation of the known; it was not that of the sober, modest attempt to penetrate the unknown...