Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ITALIAN TRAGEDY - Nicola Cu-ringa - Liveright ($2.50). The grim realities of a humble and emotional people engulf Peasant Giacomo as he returns from America to the poverty of his home in Italy during World War I. Clumsily told but rich in detail...
...them remember the wild days back in 1933 when Wall Street manipulators jacked the stock from $2 a share to $28, then let the price drop like a hot potato so that they could rig the market over again. Thus last week the hardy Atlas stockholders heard a grim summary of their company's condition and took it standing...
...Bureau of Internal Revenue had its own grim little joke: it statistically proved that there really should be no shortage. In January of 1944, when there was none, 20,115,137,677 cigarets went on the domestic market. In January of this year, there was only .185% less, even though no one seemed to have got a full supply. These figures, civilian smokers complained acridly, blithely ignored the fact that the strain of war on the home front had turned them all into chain smokers...
Just as important as these statistics to Miss Mac was the fact that her blue-clad girls had been models of correct, seamanlike behavior before the U.S. public. WAVES might not like their grim hours, the discipline, the hard work, but almost to a woman they were resolved to stick it out without audible griping...
...like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even the railroads could get their barest needs: the Office of Defense Transportation request for 1.5 million tons of steel for badly needed new cars and rail was cut by one-third...