Word: franticness
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...America in 1909 to find herself a husband. The resulting play is frankly nothing but a pleasant comedy of manners. It makes no pretensions to anything but amusement, and it goes about it in a pleasant, slow-paced, and literate manner that is a pleasant change from the frantic modern comedies which infest our stage. The handsome set and the almost perfect cast are bathed in the romantic golden glow of The Good Old Days. "The Damask Check" intends to divert it and it succeeds admirably...
...Manpower Commission office in one day last week came a frantic telegram from Washington's big Yakima Valley applegrowers (they needed 35,000 more pickers right away or they would lose their crop), came the problem of a shipment of planes all ready to go to General MacArthur except for a single part (to come from a plant whose workers have been stolen by another factory), came an ugly message from one of McNutt's regional aides (a group of West Coast farmers, unable to get labor, threatened to plant no crops for next year...
...Hosts. Driven frantic by spiraling inflation, still far from driving the Japs into the sea, menaced by the turmoil in India, China still has many li to travel before achieving unity and victory. But it has been over a year since there were any serious clashes with Chinese Communists in the northeast and north. The far reaches of the nation in the great Northwest were apparently more secure than at any time since the Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest...
...Wakefield's circular Admiral Greenslade replied that 50,000 Japs could not have landed because the Navy has "detecting devices" to pick up plane motors. He offered no good answer why nobody detected Wakefield's frantic signals. Silent General De Witt was more interested. He silently sent a major around to find...
Trouble is that the businessman is yet to be found who is able to get anything done by dealing with one Government agency. Frequent frantic trips are usually necessary to get the O.K. of a dozen or more agencies and commissions for the simplest of transactions. Only bureaucratic control of travel rationing will stop it. Best bet: it won't be bureaucratic control...