Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Needed also are news-hawks to search the by-ways of the Yard to discover the gems that are most surely hidden therein. For the practical men interested in more material pursuits, the busy board throws out the welcome mat and an invitation to delve into the realms of other people's pockets...
...something. Before he becomes Secretary at the end of the month he will report his findings on food shortages to the House. From the hearings of his committee and his researches in the field, the probable tenor of his report was clear: present food shortages are largely a mat ter of government bungling in fixing prices...
...Mat. Slight (140 lbs.), aging (62) John Rankin charged down the aisle, leaped upon the bullnecked, ham-handed Representative from Michigan. They clinched and Rankin began yanking at the 195-lb. ex-lumberjack's hair. Hook did not try to strike his opponent ("A gentleman can't strike an old man").† Members separated them...
Orders. Steel men hustled to keep track of urgent war orders which flooded in. Steel allocations under the "spot authorization" plan, never large, were curtailed. The landing-mat program, once thought finished, was reinstated, calling for 350,000 tons of sheet steel this year. The maritime and Navy program was also boosted again, just when the War Production Board had expected it to dwindle. Like most people in the cold Northeast, steelmen prayed for warmer weather, predicted they could up operating rates with the temperature...
...would like "vastly superior" service to contact his father, who is a dry-cleaning magnate--in Detroit. If this questionable weather continues, "T.C.U." Thomas says he's going home to Texas. Murray threatens to report him absent from muster if he does, so a continuation of cold weather "mat" find the "Texas heart" still transplanted...