Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like most to have waiting for us in every port," sent her six loving cups. Home with mother was Lenore Lemmon, ten-day bride of playful Jakie Webb. Lenore said she had found Jakie was tattooed from head to foot. "If and when I get out of this mess," said Lenore, "I'm going to marry a bricklayer, a . . . boy who's never even seen a nightclub...
...hold a big lunch in the House restaurant. But most isolationist Congressmen who were invited preferred a free tour of Fort Belvoir, Va., where the Army planned to let the Congressmen have a field day of fingering guns, swinging on ropes, inspecting the camp, and eating in the regular mess (with tablecloths, however). So the lunch was called...
...lifeline's breadth, the best-known U.S. shipping company last week was pulled out of a bad financial mess. In its 39-year history, International Mercantile Marine Co. has carried more passengers than any other U.S. line, operated crack ocean greyhounds like the Leviathan, Washington, Manhattan, America. But last week, with a $11,469,000 bond issue due Oct. 1, I.M.M. did not have nearly enough cash to meet it. Suddenly RFC jumped in, lent I.M.M. enough to pay off the entire issue...
Meanwhile another housing mess appeared last week, involving OPM Associate Director Sidney Hillman. P. J. Currier, president of Detroit's Currier Lumber Co., month ago underbid competitors by $431,000 for an FWA contract to build 300 defense homes at Wayne, Mich. But he has not got the contract, he charges, because Hillman has virtually granted the A.F. of L. building trades unions a closed shop. Currier has a contract with the C.I.O. United Construction Workers. If he gets the job, A.F. of L. unions have threatened a Michigan-wide general walkout. FWA has asked OPM, Justice and Labor...
...downfield blocking on which the coaching staff has been harping all week still left much to be desired, and in addition the second team line, sparked by Russ Stannard, managed to mess up the Varsity plays quite often before they got started. All in all, it was not a pleasant way in which to conclude the week's contact work...