Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the unenviables who grind out ecstatic blurbs for the movie ads came to "Shadow of a Doubt" they must have been relieved. For this is one length of dective film which they can call "gripping," "tense," and "suspenseful" without prostituting their presumably artistic souls...
...increase in the international's net worth (bringing it up to $1,775,000). U.S.A. explained it as a "cancellation by the Executive Board of C.I.O. of certain advances," which was accurate enough from C.I.O.'s standpoint, but must have made John L. Lewis grind his teeth...
...Consolidated Aircraft in Buffalo, got along famously until 1935, when the company decided to move to San Diego, concentrate on flying boats. But Larry liked Buffalo and speedy landplanes. So he decided to stay put, start his own company with some Consolidated leftover personnel. It was a nightmare grind...
...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...
Most of them do not know it, but U.S. taxpayers own a new magazine. Late this month, after preliminary experimenting that produced a trial issue last September, presses begin to grind out Vol. I, No. 2 of what may well become the Government's biggest publication: Victory, a frankly propagandistic picture magazine. Its publisher: the Office of War Information. Though U.S. citizens own it and are paying for it, they will never see it according to OWI; Victory is to be distributed overseas only...