Word: letdowns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Office of Tourism hopefully announced that the season was in full swing. But the opening's aftermath was a sorry letdown. Last week, liveried flunkies and white-tied M.C.s stood at their posts in the Casino, ready to bow like diplomats; but on the ballroom's vast parquet just one couple did their stuff and only a few new-rich lingered over the green baize tables. In the main, Deauville had reverted to its 5,000 year-round inhabitants...
...mere milestone. Their town had developed massive productivity and prosperity in the war years. Now it was still booming along. It had had a tremendous expansion-at the wartime peak employment .was up 99% over 1939's. Unlike many a war-factory town, Cleveland had suffered no serious letdown. Employment had snapped back and was still climbing-it was well over 155% of the prewar rate. If there had been no national strikes, Greater Cleveland's industries by now would be employing many more than the 225,000 they...
...letdown from war had been mental as well as physical. Warnings of world famine got lost, somehow, in plans for vacations. For four years the Government had handled the nation's global thinking; undoubtedly it would handle the famine -if one really threatened...
...usually off-hand in his optimism over the nation's ability to meet its problems. In a dam-dedicating speech at Gilbertsville, Ky. (pop. 355), he said: "We are having our little troubles now-a few of them. They are not serious. Just a blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into harness and push and pull...
...disdaining all such fun & games, is betting that the letdown in listening to news won't last. Said CBS News Chief Paul White: "They'll listen again, and if they don't, God knows the war was fought for nothing...