Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First & foremost was an all-out row over the size of the Army. Civilian officials were clamoring for release of soldiers to mine coal (see Wartime Living) and help out in the transportation jam (TIME, July 30). Almost everybody in the capital thought the Army was too big - except the Army. Last week, the scrap was brought to a head by Colorado's angular, crinkly-haired Senator Ed Johnson, a constant thorn in the War Department's side...
Although he had fervently urged that 6,000,000 tons of bituminous coal be sent to Europe to avoid "rioting, bloodshed, and the destruction of nearly all semblance of orderly government," Harold Ickes glumly announced that the U.S. would be in a bad jam if not even a pound were sent abroad...
...railroads, the central link in redeploying troops to the Pacific, the passenger jam now promises to be 10% worse than the record jam of 1944. Said Vinson: "The public is expected to refrain from unnecessary travel." That was the picture, as Fred Vinson saw it, until V-J day. In the very week that he made his report, there was talk in & out of Washington of settling down to a "soft war," i.e., fighting a slow war of attrition against the Japs instead of press ing in for the kill. That was not Vinson's view. "Now," said...
...railroads now face the war's worst jam. In his message to Congress last week, President Truman said: "Troop move ments on the nation's railroads will be come increasingly heavy from now on. I ask for full public cooperation in preventing any aggravation of this burderion domestic transportation, for it would slow down the rate at which soldiers can be reunited with their loved ones." But the President had described the picture in the mildest of terms...
...first half of the concert was brilliant: Rossini's Overture to Semiramide and Beethoven's Seventh. ("We didn't watch his baton, we watched his eyes," the concertmaster said. "They flashed for crescendo, smiled for melody, cried for the depths.") The 7,000 worshipers that jam-packed the huge Moorish Shrine Auditorium spent half the intermission praising the Allah of music and swearing that Toscanini was his only prophet...