Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington observers gave the bill a ghost of a chance to pass, in its present form. Said respected old Hatton W. Sumners, Chairman of the House
Moreover, from Barnes's candor at its most candid, it appeared that haste and Hitler were not the only villains of the piece. The ghost of NRA, he revealed, still stalks the ship repair yards. Because Todd competitor United Drydock (since bought by Bethlehem Steel) was in danger of going broke, the NRA code fixed all repair yard rates on the basis of daily wages paid, plus 35 or 40% overhead, plus machine rentals, plus 10% "profits." The arrival of war and a flood of Government work found this antique formula still in effect. As the yards filled, overhead...
...were back in 1937, Wall Street and SEC last week belabored each other with adjectives. A lawyer named Twombly said SEC was "unjust, unfair, un-American." SEC replied by exhuming the ghost of Dick Whitney. A new war had started over how to keep the peace...
...their favorite nightclubs, it was a strange celebration in a stranger time. Britain's Prime Minister was spending the last hours of 1941 in a train en route from Ottawa to Washington. Aristocratic Anthony Eden, the Foreign Secretary, was just back from a conference in the Kremlin. The ghost of Neville Chamberlain might well have rubbed its eyes...
...Oops-sorry note: First week, the authors called it The Japs Won't Have a Chinaman's Chance. But that seemed disrespectful to the Chinese. Last week it became The Japs Won't Have a Ghost of a Chance...