Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unhappy members of the $60,000,000 U.S. brush industry heard a WPB-man liken them to the quick & the dead: "We thought we could supply you with nylon. . . . Three days later . . . there was no supply for us. There isn't a substitute material that we know of that that cannot happen...
Their judgment isn't worth...
...ought to make the whole plane, and that way there can be no buck-passing if it isn't right," Ford told Sorensen. "Go ahead and start the plant . . . but leave it so we can expand it quickly to handle the whole job. They are going to need a lot more bombers than they think." He had thousands of men at work long before the Government told him to shoot the works...
...mobs were allowed to loot German stores, manhandle German nationals. One mob piled the contents of a German-owned bookstore in the street, kindling them with the cry: "Hitler isn't the only one who can burn books." Where steel shutters halted the mob, it demanded the hoisting of the Brazilian flag. Police intervention was languid. When in the late afternoon a downpour scattered the crowds, nervous Brazilians quoted their old saw: "Deus é Brasileiro" (God is Brazilian). But next day, although further rioting in Rio was stopped, provincial mobs were permitted a similar anti-Axis field...
...have fairly definite proof. Allport revealed," that enemy agents are often given information by propaganda broadcasts. Every once in a while we hear a queer sounding program that isn't the usual sort of propaganda." As an example of this practice, Allport told of a program recently broadcasted from Berlin, describing in detail a track meet. This may well have been a code message, he believed, addressed to spies in America...