Word: hosed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Statesman Bernard M. Baruch out of his World War I experience-after piecemeal stopgaps had failed. Now the U.S. was in the same fix. Price Boss Leon Henderson, who had tried to control prices by tackling them one at a time, was like a man with a rotted garden hose; as soon as he repaired one leak, a new one popped...
Seldom has a U.S. business firm taken such a smearing as Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey got last week. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold swung the rubber hose while the Truman Committee held the victim. Before the company could even yell, it found itself blamed for the U.S. rubber shortage, slugged for playing along with the Axis. Senator Harry S. Truman had even shouted "Treason...
Sparks from his torch must have shot into the pile. Smoke puffed up. Flames spurted. Only two buckets of water were at hand. Workmen had to flee. From the deck outside they poked a hose through a window. A feeble stream had no effect. Fire licked along ceilings, cabin walls, panelings...
...women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used to take pride in her legs will wear either seamless (i.e., shapeless) cotton stockings made from coarser, short-staple cotton, or knee-length "campus hose," or nothing...
There were still some inadequacies. San Francisco asked the Office of Civilian Defense for $10,000,000 worth of equipment: 1,440 auxiliary pumping units for the fire department; 1,440 one-and-a-half-ton trucks to lug them around; 3,000,000 feet of fire hose; 700,000 gas masks; helmets; arm bands; whistles; 400 motorcycles...