Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first time since the war boom began, there were more job-seekers in Canada than there were jobs. The Government's grim statistics: 146,000 persons were looking for work last week; 133,000 jobs needed filling. It was even worse than it looked, for 35,000 of the vacant jobs were in the Dominion's logging camps, while most of the unemployed were in the cities...
...grim and resolute Liberal members of the House of Commons strode belligerently into a big office on the second floor of Ottawa's East Block. There, before a full-dress meeting of the Cabinet, they shook an angry finger at the men who govern Canada...
...Face of Central Europe. Prater Violet stems straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind...
...Squeeze. What with OPA's price policy and the United Auto Workers-C.I.O. wage demands, the auto industry didn't know which way to turn. With a grim smile at Ford's dilemma, President George Christopher of Packard said, "It is damned nice to be the first guy to produce cars, but it isn't so nice to be the first guy to establish the price...
From Washington came the grim prediction of housing experts that the worst is yet to come. With demobilization rapidly increasing, the exodus of unemployed war workers from crowded industrial centers had not yet begun. The situation, said the NHA, will grow steadily worse until midwinter; the end of the ban on private building will have little effect before...