Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jolt. Big Labor sounded off, too. Officially, Big Labor was all in favor of ERP. C.I.O. President Phil Murray cried that it would be "well-nigh criminal" to reduce ERP's appropriation by a billion or more. But when it came to the points where ERP touched home, the C.I.O. sang a different tune. Joe Curran, boss of the National Maritime Union, charged that the proposed sale and charter of 500 U.S. Liberty ships to Europe would cost 500,000 American jobs. He urged not only that the ships be kept, but that at least 60% of ERP supplies...
When the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, the resulting explosion touched off not only the most efficient mass slaughter in written history, but a profound if remote jolt to the student of social science. No one needed further proof that the technical genius of man had far outrun the knowledge of his own perversity. The science of the twentieth century laboratory had left the science of the social thinker in the stone age. The committee membership cannot help but recognize this fact...
Melting Exports. Nevertheless, for the world's economy, July 15 will mean a jolt. Enough pounds can be converted into dollars after that date to hasten the currency crisis now dead ahead. If measures are not taken by the U.S. to put dollars back into foreign circulation, U.S. exporters, and the nation, will find themselves in deep trouble. Already, Britain has cut her U.S. imports by $800 million a year. In the last two months, many Latin American countries have sharply curtailed luxury and "nonessential" imports...
Three weeks after every University billing, some 400 men get the jolt of their lives from the Bursar. A notice, worthy of an absconding "guest," informs them that they have three days to pay their account with attendant fine, or face possible "disciplinary action." Unless they care to read the fine print on their term bills this is their first warning of the drastic methods Harvard uses against its debtors. One contact is enough to send most men scurrying to Lehman Hall...
...draw Britain's workers closer to their Labor Government. The shocks gave Britain's workers a sense of responsibility, a will to work they had not had for a long time. The sudden threat to their pay checks had something to do with it, too, and the jolt was healthy for everybody. Unhappily along with the jolts came material shortages which make it impossible for millions to work full time at full effort, even if they want...