Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper-reading Frenchman could guess that the Abetz discussions were aimed at nothing less than total French "collaboration" in Germany's building of the "Eurafrica" of the future-possibly including the assistance of the French Navy and General Maxime Weygand's North African Army, now said to number as many as 300,000 men. Furthermore, a certain sympathy in Vichy for Germany's grandiose future schemes seemed far from unlikely. Said the Vichy-inspired Temps last week: "When one probes to the bottom of things it is evident that the present crisis reduces itself to the opposition...
...Ways and Means Committee by Leon Henderson. He urged a 20-25% excise tax on all sales of automobiles, old and new. The installment-sales half was still being studied by OPACS and Federal Reserve economists. Since so many finance companies, dealers and banks compete for the business, best guess was that some form of Federal regulation of installment sales was likely. Possible first move: limitation of installment contracts to 18 months. Consumption of other durable goods besides autos-refrigerators, stoves, furnaces, etc.-could be controlled by the same device...
...July 1 or thereabouts" is as close as anyone will venture a guess at the date of the second R-Day when every 21-year-old who missed the first occasion will register for the draft. Franklin Roosevelt may well have signed the proclamation naming the day already, and if his sickness has prevented him, he will undoubtedly sign it his week. Ten days after the registration the well-worn goldfish bowl will again become the center of interest of thousand of eyes, and a new set of draftees will be well on their way to the potato peeling machines...
Starting Saturday this column will be written by Harry Munroe '43, who really knows his stuff despite the fact that he plays the violin, and quite badly at that. Well, I guess I had more fun writing about swing music this year than you had reading it, and at least I can be satisfied with myself for turning the column over to competent hands...
Police could guess what the trio had been after at the N.Y.A.C. Room 1903 was one of a suite occupied by Frank Erickson, reputed to be New York's wealthiest bookmaker, said by Mayor LaGuardia to be a "bum." A zipper bag which the gunmen had left behind them held black masks, wire, cord, wads of cotton-elaborate paraphernalia for a holdup...