Word: gathering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...committee will hold no public hearings (there have already been no less than 17 separate Congressional hearings on rubber). It will listen to no crackpots. It will gather facts, listen to a few men who know, and make recommendations on a war rubber program. On its report-which is not likely to be postponed till after the elections-decisions about nationwide gas rationing and motor transportation are to be based. And if the committee does a good enough job, it may well become the nucleus of the "economic high command" of which all Washington was talking last week...
...spent a lot of time on strategy; he had been forced to read a great deal, see many people. Now Admiral Leahy would save him time by assuming some of the burden: the Chief of Staff would do the "leg work" (from the newspaper term for reporters who gather news and turn it in to a writer), the indexing, the summarizing...
Solution on Paper. When President Roosevelt made Donald Nelson the nation's production boss last January, he provided a solution-on paper. Donald Nelson had full power to convert U.S. factories to war, build new plants, gather up the nation's raw materials. Most important, he could allocate the materials as he saw fit among Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, civilians...
Tisha b'Av is also the day when the Jews of Jerusalem gather at the Wailing Wall, all that remains of the Second Temple, to weep and pray for Zion. This year Tisha b'Av in Jerusalem was more solemn than ever, for there was scarcely a Jew who could not hear in imagination, above the ritual wails, the clank of Rommel's tanks...
...British and other Allied forces are most excellent in London. They amiably crowd the same corner pubs, complain about prices at the Savoy and Ritz, jostle each other in Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. In Hyde Park, baseball and softball games are now an evening institution. British civilians gather enthusiastically, but do not understand the game and cheer in the wrong places...