Word: jam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slight case of murder to the whole waxing biz. What happened was this: WPB bopped civilian use of shellac*by 70%, and shellac is the big item (15-25%) of each platter. Angle for the stab: shellac comes from India, which seems to be in quite a jam right now. Not only that, but shellac is hot stuff in war stuff over here. Anyway, this means a cut in rug-cutting, and no good news for highbrows, either. Needle-nuts can play their old platters down to a nub for all Donald Nelson cares, Only bugle at the funeral...
...ride to the front in a lend-lease U.S. Army scout car, loaded with soldiers and armed with riot guns, and explained that I must not travel at night unarmed: "This is not China. People are unfriendly." An orange glow tinted the sky when we ran into a truck jam and a hubbub of cursing Chinese soldiers. "Six planes incendiarized a town south of the river, and traitors burned the north of the river," an officer explained. In the woods, the tall, straight trees formed pillars in the column of fire, and stood trembling silently for a few moments, then...
What the concert aimed to do was to revivify a form of popular music which had lately become much less popular. In the 1920s, when jazz flourished in Chicago, there used to be great jam sessions in hotspots after closing time. By 1936 hot jazz had weaned a commercially successful but adulterated form of itself: swing. Today, it is commercial swing und the smooth, symphonic arrangements of name bands that make big money and attract jitterbugs...
...trucks, interstate commerce, which the Constitution guarantees shall be unobstructed, is about as free as a traffic jam. State regulations (chiefly on vehicle weight and length) stop them in every direction. Pennsylvania, sprawled athwart main east-west as well as north-south routes, limits vehicles' weights to 19½ tons (way under that of bordering States). Kentucky, like a feudal baron astride the routes from the Midwest to the South, limits weights to 14 tons (liberalized last year from 9 tons), and exacts toll from highway commerce. Other blockades: Kansas (where trucks have to line up for hours...
Another promising development came among the Princes who rule India's 562 big & small semiautonomous States. Often they have been accused of encouraging British rule as a means of guaranteeing their own powers. But last week, after a meeting of the Chamber of Princes, Chancellor Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanager declared that the Princes would support Dominion status under a constitution framed by India's "main elements...