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...Result? In the midst of all this gloom, the U.A.W.'s smart, redheaded Walter P. Reuther stepped up with a typically procrustean solution. Could G.M., said he, with a meaning look at the entire industry, prove that it could not grant the U.A.W. increase and still sell its cars at 1942 prices with a "fair" profit? If it could, then the U.A.W. would modify its demands...
Backfire. For this and more cogent reasons, the British delegation was immersed in gloom. A Gallup poll showed a 2-to-1 "No" vote to the question: "England plans to ask this country for a loan of three to five billion dollars to help England get back on its feet. Would you approve or disapprove . . . such a loan?" British Laborites were particularly hurt to find that, while only 55% of business and professional men were opposed, U.S. manual workers rejected the loan idea by more than...
Discord and gloom at the first session of the Foreign Ministers Council in London made it more than ever apparent that the fabric of peace would be many a weary month in the weaving (see below). There and elsewhere, disputes ranged from the Danube to the Indian Ocean, from the meaning of "democracy" to the meaning...
Perpetual Gloom. The first target was an arms factory at Takahagi. Then, in quick succession as the battleships (with cruisers closer inshore adding their quota) headed south at better than 20 knots, came engineering works at Hitachi, a copper refinery at Shibauchi and a complex of munitions plants and steel mills at Mito...
...movies because there's enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...