Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House rose in wrath last week, swung a roundhouse blow at a face that it had come to hate: the huge mug of John L. Lewis. The blow caromed off Lewis' massive chins, and smacked Labor with a jolt that shook its teeth. The Smith bill, passed by a whopping 252-10-136 vote, would deprive Labor, for the duration, of the lush privileges it has enjoyed since the New Deal came to power...
...jolt for U.S. citizens who are unaware that World War II is catching up with them is MARCH OF TIME'S current feature, Main Street, U.S.A. Its catalogue of civilian defense activities, rising prices, goods shortages, is impressive and sobering. So is its imaginary finale: a typical U.S. city writhing under the totalitarian rule after a Hitler victory...
Sculptors at first were smug: no one expects a shortage in stone, wood or plaster. But last fortnight they got a jolt: a Government order specifying that after Jan. 1 U.S. foundries could cast no more sculpture in bronze...
...Government that instead of dropping, gasoline consumption rose an estimated 8%. The second was the discovery by the public that Government rationing had already arrived. Without warning, OPACS' Leon Henderson ordered oil companies to cut their deliveries to filling stations 10%. That did give motorists a jolt...
Boylston Library's peace and calm received a jolt last night when one of its studious occupants received a singing telegram. Around the corner of the desk by the Wigglesworth side rose the sweet strains of "Happy Birthday to You" to the tune of "Mary Had a Little Lamb...