Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumor says Bill "Chewy" Shuey a Don "The Brow" Royce had a big the last Saturday at the Statler. Guess left too early, boys. Skippy Sinbe class specimen officer, brought a nine (human) specimen to Cowie last liber eve. Question is, where were "Buggy and Stan...
...This guess - and WPB did not claim that its figures were more than a carefully calculated guess - based the number of cars on the amount of steel scheduled for release to civilian industries after midsummer. Out of 2½ million tons of steel that will be available from military cutbacks, WPB Boss Krug estimated that the auto industry will get about 300,000 tons, enough for 200,000 cars. The balance of the steel will go to manufacturers of railroad cars, farm machinery, refrigerators, washing machines...
Even the wisest of the dopesters was ready to admit that this was" a guess. The President had dropped no hint of what he planned, and neither had canny, sharp-eyed Jimmy Byrnes himself. But there was plenty of reason for believing that Byrnes, who had resigned a few days before Franklin Roosevelt's death (partly because of a huff over the three-votes-for-Russia deal at Yalta), was going back to work...
...million tons v. 1944's outsized 5.7 million. Shocked by this news, U.S. sugar refineries planned to cut their operations. Candymakers and other industrial users looked for another cut in their sugar allotment-to 50% of the sugar they used in 1941. In the sugar trade, the best guess was that the shortage would last until...
After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...