Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Parsons, Kans., where he published the daily Sun. There he heard that men wanting work at the nearby Sunflower ordnance plant had first to join an A.F. of L. union, pay $39 to $53 in initiation fees and dues. Many of the job-seekers were from Kansas farms. Hopping mad, he went back to Washington, introduced a bill calling for open shops on Government jobs. The bill was shelved in committee...
...Divorce. The report came in; Nelson saw it with dismay. He asked Senator Truman to hold it back, protested that since the Committee had begun its sleuthing-in fact, even as Guthrie went away mad -conversion had ceased to be a problem. Civilian production had long since been sliced down, although consumers had not yet really felt it much. But Senator Truman, who likes sensations, was adamant. For greater efficiency in the future, he argued, WPB needed a shaking up anyhow. He issued his report...
...Briton-in-the-street was as mad as a blitzed Briton, and Winston Churchill was in for more trouble the moment he got back from the U.S. The British remembered General Sir Claude Auchinleck's order of the day issued in the battle's first week: "Well done indeed, Eighth Army. Stick it. Hang on to him. Never leave him. . . . Give him no rest...
Leon Henderson was fighting mad last week and showed it as only Leon can. He even threatened to quit as price tsar...
...Battle Began with a damage suit over granulated soap. Lever's Rinso had proudly dominated that field since 1918, and Lever is still plenty mad over the $5,000,000 it had to dish out to Procter & Gamble and Colgate because a new spraying process Lever adopted in the late '20s turned out (in 1937) to be a patent infringement. About the same time, Lever enraged Procter & Gamble by bringing out Spry to compete with Procter & Gamble's long-established Crisco. Smart Lever Bros.—British-founded, now ambiguously owned by British Unilever's Dutch affiliate Lever...