Word: gloom
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Over Washington, gloomy under late winter skies, spread the deeper, greyer, more paralyzing gloom made by men. Grumpily, unhappily, but perforce, men faced the fact that the Administration's war agencies are still full of sand and emery dust, their borrowed time is fast running out, ahead lies another screaming crisis when all the wheels will grind to a stop and only a major repair job can get them started again...
...Production Board offices, where gloom has often been thick enough to cut with a machine tool, were aglow last week with broad smiles, good digestions, men humming in the halls...
...crossed a high ridge climbing an almost impossibly steep path covered with a thick layer of soft wet mud. The forest was soaking wet and the dripping mist in the treetops cast a sepulchral gloom over everything. Here we met a man, emaciated, filthy, saturated to the skin, staggering blindly forward, murmuring the word "Indoo," India, the goal to which he had been pressing literally for months. This Chinese soldier was alone, a thousand miles from home, and dying on his feet. Yet he was still going. The next man we came to was a sturdy young man, about...
Congress adopted a tough attitude toward the colleges: although it agreed to defer teen-agers still in high school until the end of the term, college men may be called immediately. But gloom is not evenly distributed on the nation's campuses. Technical schools, which are training more students than ever before, and colleges like Harvard, Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, Dartmouth, already crammed with thousands of Army & Navy men, are not particularly worried. Even some small liberal arts colleges, having heard the worst, found their case not entirely hopeless...
...this merely deepens the gloom which has enveloped the whole manpower program. That issue has provoked a first-class jurisdictional battle which rages through Washington. The Department of Labor, the War Labor Board, and General Hershey's Selective Service Headquarters have been bickering ever since Pearl Harbor. Paul McNutt and his Manpower Commission sit idly on the sidelines, eager to go in as substitutes but lacking authority from the head coach. The fireside chat does not unravel this tangle. Still unanswered is the central question: Who is to decide when what workers go where...