Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roundheeled as a neutron, Lanny penetrates the atomic age. Roosevelt packs him off to Princeton for a cram-and-jam (physics and Mozart) session with Albert Einstein, thence to Germany to abduct atomic data. But a plane crash lays Lanny up on a spiffy yacht; two lovely young shipmates make sweet moan at him all the way to Hong Kong...
...Traffic Jam. Harry Truman had entered office with the firm belief that government must, as far as possible, stay out of labor-management disputes. His failure lay in the fact that the people-their representatives, their unions and their industrialists-were not ready to resume their responsibilities. By going on the assumption that they were, he had weakened the authority and position of the presidency...
After a year on the job, Harry Truman still spoke reasonably, but the people around the table with him paid him little heed. As his troubles piled around him like cars in a hopeless traffic jam, he got little help from the people, none from Congress -e.g., in such matters as the inequalities of the Wagner Act. Perhaps the concept of the political elite was growing. In Washington one Government labor adviser said: "The only solution to the coal strike is federal seizure, and then let the Government hand the miners and operators a contract." Other extremists, including Socialists with...
...Station many rail workers went to their lockers, put away their uniform caps and walked off. At Grand Central Station the Twentieth Century Limited was dead on its wheels seven hours after the President's announcement. So were hundreds of trains across the nation, in the worst passenger jam of modern railroading history...
...conception of it, Americans were busy fawning upon any and every eminent European classical musician obtainable. But in his native Europe the bell-shaped opera sopranos, weirdly posturing conductors et al were, comparatively speaking, the honorless prophets, while the imported hot records from the New World and the American jam bands got the vivas, saluts, and heils. The European Parlophone company, with branches in almost every major country on the continent, still carries a large number of the old sizzlers like Louis' West End Blues and Luis Russel's Feelin' The Spirit, which had been out of print in this...