Word: glum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike many another listener, Wendell Willkie was not bored. Having predicted his own nomination on the sixth ballot in Philadelphia, Mr. Willkie predicted Franklin Roosevelt's renomination on the first ballot in Chicago. But until "we-want-Roosevelt" chants began to liven the broadcasts, Candidate Willkie was glum. When the news came, he happily puffed a cigaret: "Boy, I think my worries are over...
...union of United Saw, File & Steel Products Workers called a walkout- ostensibly for a union shop and a 10% pay rise, really to bring recalcitrant members of the C. I. O. Steel Workers Organizing Committee union (recently defeated in an NLRB election at the plant) into line. Glum at having their party called off, Disston workers trod their picket line without bitterness. Said one laconic oldtimer: "Well, they wanted a closed shop-and they...
...glum business world, still choked with inventory from the war-spurred boom of late 1939, it was a Page One story. For last week's steel production rate had sunk to a dismal 60.7% from the 90%-plus of last October-December. And on the Stock Exchange, U. S. Steel was stranded around 55, down one-third from last September when Hitler's mechanized army was mopping up Poland...
...summons had been unexpected but imperious: "Dear Vag--There has been an ugly bare spot on my dressing table ever since Scotties went out of fashion. Could use your picture to fill it up until I think of something more original. Please try not to look as glum as usual...