Word: maddering
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...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...
...hell can editors and publishers be aroused to the danger of phony headlines?" brooded Nat Floyd, 38-year-old correspondent of the New York Times. That question burned in Texas-born Nat Floyd's soul while he was on Bataan, getting madder & madder as he read the Navy's mimeographed daily digest of the optimistic news from the U.S.-dogfights headlined as major victories, major defeats buried away in the corners...
Reminiscent of the stories of pro-Fascist officers in the Army of France is the War Department's notification to Lawrence Dennis that he is eligible for a commission. The man who believes that "nothing can be madder than to accelerate the domestic trend to Fascism by undertaking to eradicate Fascism abroad" has passed his physical examination and is waiting to become a captain...
...most of their editors and publishers began to feel that the President was less than all-knowing, all-wise and beneficent. Other Washington newsmen were conscious of his fallibility. But the White House gang who saw him oftenest usually stood up for him, until last week when they were madder than they had been since the days of the Hoover Administration. No one thing had made them sore. Their anger had built up for some time...