Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writing I think of some of the other actions that now come back as French Toast. For instance, Juan Trippe's determination to build an air system through South America, and how fortunate all the Americas are that this did happen. So you are in a like manner being a splendid ambassador to our neighbors...
...about the boomtown aspects of the U.S. You see it everywhere, particularly in Louisville, which has been a boom town for two years. If the war ended today with a victory for us, the mass of folks here could truthfully say that the war was the best thing to happen in their lives. They have more of everything and they are getting more every...
...there was no authority in Washington who would or could talk about these three strategic materials as one integrated production and financial problem. Butylene fell to Rubber Reserve Corp.; toluene (for TNT) to Army Ordnance; aviation gasoline to the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Something at last began to happen about six weeks ago. Its foundation was the sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program...
What will happen to pleasure motorboating if gas rationing becomes more stringent is anyone's guess. But for windjammers and skippers who are content to stick close to home waters, the approaching season looks sporty enough...
...there are cogent reasons for the Egyptians and British to stick together. The easygoing Egyptians have only to look at what has happened to other conquered countries to learn what will happen to their foodstuffs, money and personal liberties if the Nazis succeed. Prime Minister Mustafa El Nahas Pasha's pro-British Government is more stable, has wider popular support than the Government a year ago. The anti-British ex-Prime Minister Aly Maher Pasha has been jailed. Within recent weeks 200 other possible quislings have been arrested, a padlock put on the Cairo Royal Automobile Club, which since...