Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the horror with which the inhabitants of the democratic states righteously regard any cold-blooded murder, Darlan's death has given the Allies a second chance to clear up the political mess which has existed in North Africa since the start of the military campaign. The United States attempted to take the easy way out by cooperating with General Giraud in his accession to the post of High Commissioner in North Africa, but in so doing it neglected to define the still rather anomalous position of General De Gaulle in London...
...most unsavory pottage of all, as Chang soon found. For ten years he was a puppet in a conquered land. It was a mess he could not spit out, a mess from which he could not flee. The people of Free China would never again trust Chang. There was only one way out. Finally he took...
...General Maximum Price Regulation, unhonored & unsung. It pegged prices to March or other specified levels, but in its seven months got hopelessly bogged down in new costs and schedules, a dozen individual price regulations and a mess of confusing explanations...
...machine-tool industry, which up to 1940 had never produced more than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry...
With its chief Leon Henderson slogging through the worst political mess he has yet encountered (see p. 20), the rest of OPA was also out looking for trouble last week. OPA lawyers were engaged in their first big wave of enforcement actions. The day had come for OPA to put up or shut up on price control and rationing. OPA was putting...