Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprising number of last year's pushovers have become powerhouses; many a former powerhouse will be a pushover. Few teams, good or bad, can hope to keep intact for the whole season; many teams, with no time to perfect systems, will gamble on tricky offensives. Almost anything can happen on the nation's college gridirons this fall-and the Army will get blamed for much...
While this rise & fall in employment is typical of what will happen in thousands of U.S. plants, not typical is the way the company has dodged the horrific bugaboo now raising the hackles of U.S. businessmen-reconversion cost. The Government will foot the bill (standard practice when it leases a plant). With equal ease, the company will dodge smaller bugaboos. It need not scramble for equipment (WPB will see to that), nor fear that some other company will grab its market while it is reconverting...
...Although this criticism undoubtedly earned hear-hears from many bored BBC listeners, nothing drastic was likely to happen until after the war. Nevertheless, something did happen. It was not the appointment of hard-driving Robert Foot to be sole director and chief executive officer of BBC (he had been joint director with Sir Cecil Graves until the latter's retirement). It was the creation of the new office of Editor in Chief of BBC and the man chosen to fill...
...much on the Great Leader. . . . This dependence on authority is the exact complement of the irrational hatred of 'that man in the White House.' . . . The progressive movement is weak indeed if there is only one man in the country who can carry its banner. Worse things might happen to it in the long run than defeat of a fourth-term candidate, if that were necessary to stimulate it to ... a policy more fundamental than to continue to place a single champion in the Presidential chair...
...captain nervously watching his barometer drop to hurricane level. Shippers know that at war's end the U.S. may have quadrupled its prewar fleet to a thumping 50,000,000 deadweight tons, most of it Government-owned, enough to founder private shippers if unwisely used. What will happen to this vast tonnage...