Word: hullabaloo
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...Hullabaloo Absorbed...
...have noted with great interest the hullabaloo caused by the proposed merger of the armed services. It seems to me that the obvious solution has been neglected. If the Army is serious (which we of course assume) in its desire for a unified command, the obvious solution is to have the Marine Corps absorb the Army...
Through all the hullabaloo, one fact was clear: the CAB had by no means settled everything by its rejection of the "chosen instrument" plan for postwar U.S.aviation. The airlines, urged by CAB to compete with each other, were not only competing, but also fighting (see below). They would probably go on doing so until Congress passed the definitive word. Sound airmen hoped it would waste no time when it sat down to work again...
Immediate results in El Salvador was a fierce outburst of anti-U.S. feeling. President Franklin Roosevelt was booed in movie theaters. Salvadoran democratic leaders tried to hush the hullabaloo, were inclined to blame not the U.S., but the powerful United Fruit Co. They suspected that United Fruit opposed the spread of democracy for fear of increased taxes and stricter labor laws...
...bribe"). Canada's trade-union leaders suspected a move to substitute a dole for higher wages. In low-wage, Catholic Quebec, where the Government hoped to make its biggest hit, there were complaints that the plan discouraged big families. Throughout Canada, the opposition press raised an almost unanimous hullabaloo. The Calgary Herald achieved the crack-of-the-week, called the plan a "diaper dole...