Word: hullabaloo
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...Navy said last week it does not have enough oil for an "emergency." Some Congressmen raised a hullabaloo over exports of oil to Russia, but these were a negligible factor. The services are short of oil chiefly because the oil companies: 1) get a better price from motorists than from bulk sales to the Government, and 2) are in a competitive "brand name" fight for the U.S. market. To eke out its supply, the Navy plans to import an extra 3,400,000 bbl. from the Persian Gulf...
Having approved this pious declaration in spite of all the hullabaloo, the committee went on to the next item of business: the question of Russia's professional "amateurs." Russia's well-paid athletes will be forgiven all the subsidies they have already received from their Government, providing they take no more between now and the 1948 Olympics...
...General hullabaloo of jeering, catcalling, desk-thumping...
Despite all the hullabaloo, organized buyers' strikes had little effect except in sales of perishable commodities. The U.S. consumer was still short of too many things to make buyers' strikes effective...
...hullabaloo over the railroad strike, the coal strike was almost forgotten. In their first week back at work, the miners dug out 9,000,000 tons of coal (normal consumption: 11,200,000 tons). But negotiations had once more broken off, and time was running out on John Lewis' second deadline. By now everybody knew what President Truman would do if the miners struck again. He would seize the mines. He would also promise to carry on negotiations after the mines had been seized-if the miners would continue to work. But would they? At week...