Word: madder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every day has been madder than the one before and life literally never has a dull moment. . . . We never go anywhere but we get great attention. . . . They follow us in jeeps, peeps, weapon carriers. We can only date officers and it is always necessary to refuse six dates a night...
Behind the Rising Sun (RKO) is an 88-minute jag of ferocious anti-Japanese propaganda. Based on facts reported in U.S. Correspondent James R. Young's book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...convertible bonds. Usually a rooter for rail debt reduction, Bob Young boiled over when he first saw the ICC plan: Alleghany's huge holdings in MOP common were tossed out entirely, its 5½% bonds were treated almost as badly. When he took another look he got madder still: the big insurance companies (holding the topflight bonds) would control the road...
...about them it made him mad. He thought they belonged on the nation's scrap pile. But Missouri's earnest, toothy Governor Forrest C. Donnell said he could not prove that the State owned the cannon, therefore could not give them away. This made Ralph Coghlan even madder...
Plus Bonus. The investigating Congressmen got even madder about Maritime Commission's financial arrangements. For building a Liberty ship (average cost $1,800,000), the standard contractor's fee, covering undefined "overhead," is $110,000-based on a par building time of 105 days. Days saved can raise the fee to a $140,000 maximum; days over par can dock it to a minimum of $60,000. Every item chargeable to the building of a ship the Maritime Commission pays. Thus Pete Newell and associates stand to make more than $5 million on the 84 ships without putting...