Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prevailing mood in Washington was gloom. Apprehensively the country read the Washington columnists, whose reports of U. S. defense preparations read last week like the opening chapters of so many ghost stories. "We are in a pause," gloomed Columnist Ray Clapper (Scripps-Howard). "Slump," wailed Columnist Dorothy Thompson (New York Herald Tribune), who printed reports that the President is in a "down" mood. Even Franklin Roosevelt's closest adherents questioned his two-week cruise; wondered how he dared leave. Washington seemed to be sinking back into the swamp whence it was reclaimed...
...last week a familiar spectre of the U. S. countryside had thrown off his shroud, picked up his dinner pail, gone back to work. The ghost town was coming to life. Field representatives of the Defense Advisory Commission, notebooks in hand, scurried through cobwebby, long-idle factories in Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading...
...Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from financing a housing project and Charlestowners had the choice of building a potential ghost town or letting nearby Louisville, Jeffersonville, New Albany make off with the swag...
...explosives should be produced in sparsely-settled areas, can seldom make use of the surplus labor and housing of large urban centres. With an estimated 20 new explosive plants on Government books (five or six already a-building), the U. S. hoped to prevent the dreaded boom town-ghost town cycle. One solution: a Government plan to build 1,000 $2,500 homes near Radford, Va. (site of a new $35,000,000 plant to be built by Hercules Powder Co.) on land leased from farmers. The homes would house workers as long as needed, then be sold...
Last week Utilitarian Foshay was starting on his fourth year as paid secretary of the Salida Chamber of Commerce. The annual membership drive was under way and he was working like a beaver. Back of him were three years of success. Salida was on its way to becoming a ghost town in the early '30s. The Denver & Rio Grande Western took away its shops and offices, two mines closed down, 3,000 citizens moved away. First thing W. B. did was advertise. On the highways he set up strings of hearts bearing the admonition "Follow the Hearts to Salida...