Word: messing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elder Statesman Bernard M. Baruch, Harvard President James B. Conant and M.I.T. President Karl T. Compton in 37 days had gone to the bottom of the rubber mess to get the ugly facts of wartime life...
...shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...
...Riding in a special plane, Willkie's itinerary as now planned does not include a stop in India. The U.S. is sending no emissaries to mix in India's mess. If India wants U.S. intercession she will have...
Tall (6 ft. 3), hulking (250 Ib.) Reese Taylor, chief of WPB's Iron & Steel Branch finally got fed up. He had joined WPB late in May with high hopes: though steel allocation was a mess, he figured he could make sense of it, and he thought that his title carried enough authority to make his rulings stick. He went to work ably and thoroughly to find out where steel was going, why there wasn't enough. But forthright Reese Taylor reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew...
...Harvard Yard there are more men in uniform than in mufti. A dozen or more special schools for Army & Navy men have sprung up. Officers and undergraduates double up in double-decker bunks, overflow dormitories. They eat in shifts (but contracts have been let for a huge new mess hall on the Soldiers' Field tennis courts). The president's big house on Quincy Street has been converted into Naval offices...