Word: madnesses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Silent Dictators. Where Hitler was, no one outside of Germany knew. He usually goes to the front when a campaign begins. But lately Hitler has been reported increasingly nervous, irritable, difficult. His Sunday proclamation was read by Propaganda Chief Paul Joseph Goebbels. Yet even if Hitler were as mad as a March Hare, the General Staff would not have begun a war it did not expect to win. The German timetable was said to give Russia three weeks...
...hours after it had started to study the dispute, the Cleveland plant was strike-shut. And even after strike leaders reached an agreement with the Board next day (raising wages 1? an hour), they deliberately delayed informing strikers. Unnecessarily lost were two full shifts of aluminum production. Washington, hopping mad, put the leaders under scrutiny, discovered that they included a reform-school graduate, an ex-convict and parole violator-and a whole basketful of alleged Communists...
...Germany knew (the liberal, refugee and Communist press had told them so) that the Nazis were crazy and would soon be turned out by a popular uprising. Göring was an overblown playboy who liked to wrestle with lion cubs and dress up like Lohengrin. Hitler was a mad man and a paper hanger to boot...
Under the silent city, waiting for the bombers in the half-light of the world's largest dugout (estimated capacity: 30,000), hundreds of Chinese died. They died not of bombs but of suffocation, in mad frenzy, as they clawed and tore at each other to fight their way to fresh...
When Mexican telephone companies recently upped monthly rates four pesos (80?), 1,000 subscribers in provincial Querétaro got so mad they lifted their receivers right off the hook-and left them off. Not till the rates came down again, said they, would they put back their receivers or pay their bills. Last week, local managers tore their hair trying to figure how to beat the strike...