Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said General Eisenhower when he read the first issue of TIME-in-Paris: "I know our soldiers will really appreciate it." And it was the same all down the line. A mess sergeant pleaded: "Please don't leave TIME for the guys until after mess. If they get it while they're eating they wait and wait...
During that time he has diverted more than 272,000 carloads of freight from one railroad to another, cleaned up the mess that Pearl Harbor made of West Coast ports, generally won the respect of railroadmen for his nimble thinking...
...darn bad if the French are disappointed. Our men have only been fighting a little more than three years, have not seen the last of Europe's mess, and only have Japan to defeat after a 30-day furlough (perhaps) in the States...
...photography. His chief contribution is the incredible enlargements, which lost nothing in the blowing-up process. Working with a picked staff of technicians, Steichen had the negatives enlarged to Herculean proportions, capturing minute details with great clarity. Example: a huge shot of carefree, clean-cut Navy fledglings, coming from mess...
Those who stared long & hard at these facts were amazed-and angered. They asked, how could there be a shortage of meat? By last week most probers of the meat mess had reached the same conclusion: too-rigid restrictions and price controls on a sensitive market had knocked the whole meat system galley-west. Unless something was done to ease the restrictions, the meat shortage will become progressively worse...