Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President gave the Victory Program its marching orders last week. Biggest problem: how to lick the process by which: 1) Congress appropriates billions of dollars; 2) the Army & Navy swish through paper slips of orders; 3) manufacturers hang the orders on a hook, unable to get the plants, tools, materials and manpower to make the stuff. Most immediate, most terrifying bottleneck, bobbing up like a cork released under water: machine tools. This was the bottleneck of 1940 and 1941, was still guaranteed to last through at least three months...
...politics and meteorology it was a week of strange, unseasonable weather. Three great masses of warm air were in motion across the country. One swept inland from the Atlantic, bringing rain and fog-fog that covered the land from Maine to Florida, from Sandy Hook to the Mississippi, that grounded planes, made trains run late, and filled New York Harbor with the melancholy blare of foghorns and whistles. Another warm air mass moved from the Southwest bringing hot days to Florida, fog on the Gulf Coast, warm weather in Kansas (temperatures were ten to 15 degrees above normal). Another warm...
Brigadier General Alexander D. Surles, lank, hook-nosed Chief of Army's Press Relations Section, addressed an audience of 50 Washington correspondents, called to an emergency meeting a few hours after announcement of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The subject was censorship...
Lana Turner was voted "Sweetheart of the harbor defenses of Sandy Hook...
...Harvard plays its football for fun," "Chub" Peabody declared last night when he spoke, over a coast-to-coast NBC hook-up, as a member of Bil Stern's Life Magazine All-America team. On the same program were Brude Smith and Dick Wildon of Miunesota, Frank Sinkwich of Georgia, and Frankie Albert of Stanford...