Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the White House the air was black with chickens coming home to roost. When Franklin Roosevelt returned from his 16-day, 7,600-mile junket to Mexico, he came back to the biggest all-around mess of his ten years in office. The mess was, in the last analysis, of his own making...
...Chief Donald Nelson frantically sought a way out of the mess, in stepped Missouri's Senator Harry Truman, announcing that his committee would investigate the entire problem this week. The Gillette investigation faded away...
...unfilled orders for tanks, shells, howitzers, boats, aircraft assemblies and freight cars; it expects its cars to be used again, as in 1942, to transport eight million armed men and 18 million civilians; it may land a Government order for 1,200 troop-sleepers of new design, plus 400 mess cars; and it has ready for peacetime production a new, lightweight, 24-roomette duplex sleeping...
...Tobruk. Thereafter Rommel's supply of oil came only by air transport. The 513th hit Tobruk ("the milk run") nearly every morning. Their biggest flop: once they set out for Tripoli, got lost looking for Sousse, finally reached Gabes, where they dropped their bombs and killed only a mess of fish...
Last Saturday, under the command of Sergeant Bruce, seven enlisted men and ten students rode the remaining 18 ROTC horses to an M.P. detachment in Maynard, Mass. The ride, 24 miles long, started at 700 and ended at 1300. Riders had lunch at the mess hall there and returned in the afternoon by truck...