Word: hullabaloo
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...Hullabaloo and Facts...
...concentrated British plane production on fighters, while the U.S. has been building (and flying) practically all of the transport planes. Thus the U.S. will have all the planes and most of the know-how to dominate the international airways when war ends. This fact is one basis of the hullabaloo about "freedom of the air." War pushed other U.S. airlines into international aviation, under contract to the U.S. Army. But Pan Am, as the only U.S. airline that flew the world under its own contracts before the war, is the line that frightens the British most...
Radium, the most widely publicized of earth's 92 elements, is now being advertised for sale in the back pages of metallurgical journals. Reason: despite 40 years of hullabaloo, man has found very few uses...
Hardly anybody had supposed Tunis and Bizerte would fall so soon. This time Americans, who for so long had been expecting too much, had expected too little. There were no celebrations, no hoopla and hullabaloo; a few Senators made proper comments; the President sent messages of congratulations to the commanders. Then it was over-except for the headlines, the speculations on what next, and the casualties. Already hundreds-perhaps thousands-of white crosses and Stars of David marked American graves in the poppy fields of Africa...
...great powers. In London, exiled statesmen fretted about frontiers not yet won back from the enemy (see col. 2). In Washington, U.S. Under Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister in the exiled government...