Word: gulps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...England this week, the U.S. Women's Army Corps had the pleasantly apprehensive experience of being inspected by the Corps' Commanding Officer. Trim Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, head woman of the WACs, found everything in order...
...women took it. By last week Hobby's army had only recovered the strength it had lost during that debacle. Today Hob by has requests from field commanders for 600,000 WACs. She has only 63,000 to supply. For the second time in her successful life Oveta Gulp Hobby has been really balked...
Said WAC Boss Colonel Oveta Gulp Hobby, underlining the dismalness of the flop by declaring that there were almost half a million jobs in the Army which women could fill: "Nothing leads me to believe that we are going to get a volunteer army of 400,000 or 500,000 women. We've never been able to get a volunteer army of men that big." War Secretary Stimson hoped that U.S. women would come to feel a personal responsibility "in this total war." But he did not have much hope. Mr. Stimson's recommendation: compulsory service...
Although this formula must still filter through House & Senate, it was clear that the public would be able to swallow the final mixture with an easy gulp. In a pre-election year, the Ways & Means Committee was unwilling to find ways & means to raise the $10.5 billion in new taxes recommended by the Treasury, was eager to settle for around $2 billion. And the Administration, by fumbling the job of showing why tax increases are necessary, had given Congress an unusually good excuse for preferring politics to economics...
...floating English blonde, a loose, friendly creature with a voice like a drain. Jeannie consoles herself with a graceful, sponging Count, who mistakes her for the Bank of England, escorts her through her favorite viands (caviar, chicken mousse, Russian salad, peach Melba and champagne at one gulp), postprandially proposes marriage. In the long run, penniless Jeannie and her hard-collared compatriot get together. "Och, it was only the way he kissed my hand," she wistfully explains about the Count...