Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fish-fries followed fishing. For dessert there were bowls of Manitoulin blueberries. In the background constantly hovered Royal Canadian Mounted Police, members of the U.S. Army, Secret Service men. The inhabitants of Birch Island Station (three summer cottages, two farm dwellings, one church) kept mum about the Old Fisherman, the warplanes that zoomed...
...successive drawings brought no announcements of lessened absenteeism or production increases. Consolidated is mum on just how much improved attendance...
...inventor of the famed New Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned over a rock and saw "slimy things crawling" under...
...Robin Moor, six months before Pearl Harbor. The sinking brought a burning rebuke from Franklin Roosevelt, touched off new verbal skyrockets in the already explosive isolationist-interventionist debate. North Dakota's Senator Nye "guessed" that the British had sunk her-then hastily retracted. For obvious reasons, Germany kept mum...
Weapon to Swing. In the face of this all-out attack, Pan Am's suave President Juan T. Trippe was mum, but not idle. United Air Lines, second largest U.S. domestic line and operator of many an ATC route, had been reported in favor of the new committee. United did not appear at the second session. Then news came that United now favored a policy in which one company "or at the most two or three in different territories" should operate the U.S. share of international airlines...