Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army was begging for them. Big newspaper advertisements challenged Canada's manhood: "You will never join the Victory Parade in Berlin by sitting in an easy chair." The Army's Recruiting Director, Brigadier James Mess, broadcast to Canadians still at home and fit for battle: "You . . . cannot hide behind a petticoat, whether it be your wife's or your mother...
...Stock shares are sold to provide funds for new officers' clubs. One such club-the Hotel du Pacifique in Noumea, with a long bar, slot machines and mess-sold original shares at $25. They are now quoted at $600, have paid handsome dividends in either cash or liquor...
When Shasta is dedicated, Frank Crowe's speech will probably be the same two sentences he spoke at Boulder and Parker: "If you gentlemen want to see the fellow who really built this dam, go over to the mess hall. He wears a tin hat, his average age is thirty-one and he can do things...
...year. Result: many workers drew big pay for little work, had no incentive to work harder, fearing rates would be cut if wages, became too fantastic. Colt went through a series of small strikes. The War Labor Board spanked management as "largely responsible" for the wage mess. When WLB tried to even up wages by lowering some, raising others, Colt landed in a new mess over the cuts. Production slumped. In May Colt turned out only 31% of its scheduled number of .50-caliber machine guns, only 54% of its .45-caliber automatic pistols. only 55% of its .38-caliber...
...were told to dig in. ... We were seven miles up too far. Right up by the enemy. . . . The enemy artillery was whizzing over our heads. Machine guns were firing at us. ... They blowed our kitchen up and it burned, killing one of our cooks and mess sergeant. I layed in the hole for twelve hours. Our artillery shot at us. Our tanks shot at us. ... It was getting dusk and our tanks and artillery finally drove the enemy out of town. So that night we went back about five miles and ate and slept...