Word: label
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first the final scene of the old priority farce had to be played. WPB announced a new quickie priority, label AA-2X. The supposedly top priority is Aia, but AA-2X rates ahead of it-to get war factories small amounts of critical materials when needed in a rush to keep production going (of course for still greater emergencies there were already two still higher ratings...
...gallons of gasoline, many trucks and other military stores. They also found many a record of pre-war U.S. policy: the trucks had been made in the U.S., the gasoline containers bore the trade-mark of a U.S. refiner, the Jap garrison's corned beef had a U.S. label on the cans. Makin after the raid looked better to Colonel Carlson. Said he: "It was a sight to see. There were dead Japs all over the place...
Labor's New Order in music continued its efforts to force the union label on the Boston Symphony Orchestra last week. From musical Rochester, N.Y. came word that the only major non-union orchestra in the U.S. will not play its annual December concert at Rochester's Eastman Theater this year. Reason: a threatened boycott of the theater by all union musicians...
...United Nations" is President Roosevelt's label for the 28 nations which up to this week have signed the Roosevelt-Churchill Atlantic Charter ("the Four Freedoms"). It may, according to the President, include any & all nations "which are, or which may be, rendering material assistance and contributions in the struggle for victory over Hitlerism." But the label "United Nations" is dangerous because too many people think that it also signifies a fully effective body for the cooperative conduct of World...
...only no longer adequate but actually conflicted with the Make-the-Students-Healthy program. The French dictionary was consulted once more, but no new words were found that could describe the food. Consomme, bouillon, puree, mongol, gumbo and other mumbo jumbo had been exhausted in trying to label the soup. And hamburger, whether Parisienne or Brooklynese, they had to admit was simply hamburger. With one final heroic effort, "Okra" was tacked onto the chicken gumbo in the last Sunday dinner, and than the dining halls were quickly closed...