Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From headquarters of the International Association of Machinists went exasperated word that Local 751 had better houseclean itself of Communism, or the International would do it. Boeing officials, unwilling to intervene, only prayed that Local 751 would settle its mess and get down to work...
...risky margin" of 2¼% at which he might be forced to make planes. Having got some new plant as a gift from the British, many planemakers wanted a similar gift from the U. S. By year's end, U. S. aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries for the year were about $625,000,000; are now running around $55,000,000 a month. At that rate, it would take the industry over five years to put its $3,500,000,000 backlog...
...jungle music and tom-toms. Okay if you like that sort of thing.... Somebody by the name of Walter Cross has a piano solo called Creepy Weepy on BLUEBIRD. The label says it's boogie-woogie, but it's not. It's not anything at all, just a mess of inane runs and phrases that don't get anywhere.... The Jimmie Lunceford softball team, fresh from a victory over Benny Goodman's outfit, has challenged the Crimson to a game any time next spring. "You just name the day," says Jimmie...
...Panama Canal, is the only new U. S. base squarely within the Caribbean. For big, rugged Jamaica, the U. S. Navy has big plans : an anchorage at Portland Bight, in Galleon Harbor 33 square miles of land base; 100 acres near Williamsfield for a recreation centre and hospital mess ; a mile-square area south of May Pen for an emergency and auxiliary landing field. Near by at Port Royal the British naval dockyard, long neglected, will be improved by the U. S., providing the U. S. Navy with a place to service its warships halfway between the Canal...
...slums and the sharecroppers and the unemployed. President Roosevelt smelled it, felt himself powerless in the face of passive reactionary opposition, and interested the nation in foreign affairs. The effect was good. Americans forgot their own disordered houses in their scurry to see the other fellow's mess. Mussolini and Hitler resorted to the same stunt when they felt themselves powerless. A militarist nation lasts for a few years and dies; the spirit of religion lives...