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...wheat hullabaloo has nevertheless served a useful purpose: as the sights for the buna program were raised again & again after Pearl Harbor, they finally pointed so high that the capacity of the petroleum industry to produce suddenly became a question. The 220,000 tons of wheat-alcohol rubber will make up the difference at the same time that it helps overrule the farm bloc's conviction that big business has been blocking it out of the program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Die Is Cast | 7/20/1942 | See Source »

Pain & Remorse. At week's end the hullabaloo subsided. The citizen closed his garage doors. The real sufferers took stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First Blow | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...rose Majority Leader Barkley in the midst of the 40-hour-week hullabaloo in Congress. He told his colleagues their hysteria was needless. The critical mail pouring into Washington had been inspired by old enemies of the New Deal. The motive: to destroy New Deal labor laws. The "grass roots" uprising in the South was an organized campaign. Congressmen bellowing about the 40-hour week had better go home, talk to the voters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Breathing Spell | 4/13/1942 | See Source »

...give up its only weapon-its right to strike. Some observers were willing to predict that labor chiefs, having maintained the principle of the closed shop, would not make an issue of it again while the U.S. was at war, certainly had no intention of causing the kind of hullabaloo that John L. Lewis had started with his captive coal mine fight. Observers believed also that the U.S. could now expect an end to serious wartime strikes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Peace for the Duration? | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...stack of discs stands waisthigh, big 16-inch transcriptions, some 100 hours of music, a recorded hullabaloo of wails, twangs, drumbeats and gong-whams. It is the biggest mass of raw material that U.S. musicologists and anthropologists have yet had from the East Indies and the South Seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dongs & Oo-Wahs | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

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