Word: mum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration, with its fixed price ceilings and floors, had got itself into a jam. One proposal: requisitioning the corn now in elevators, at ceiling prices, and throwing it into the market. On this, Food Czar Chester Davis, conferring daily with corn growers, feeders and processors, was mum...
Russian-born William Schneiderman came to the U.S. when he was three, sucked in Marxist pap with his borscht, became a Communist when he was 17, kept mum about it when he was naturalized in 1927 (at 21), eventually became Communist state secretary for California. In 1940, the U.S. District Court in San Francisco revoked his citizenship, holding that he had "obtained his certificate of citizenship illegally" because he failed to reveal that he belonged to a party which "advised, advocated and taught the overthrow of the Government by force and violence." Communist Schneiderman enlisted the aid of Wendell Willkie...
With pardonable pride, WPB announced that the U.S. had produced more than 7,000 military aircraft in May, would beat that total in June. With something less than pardonable reticence, it was mum about the rest of the military production program. It was not so bright a picture as WPB's announcement of aircraft production indicated it might...
...many submarines and men the Nazi U-boat fleet has lost, only the Germans and Allied Intelligence know. According to unofficial Allied estimates, more than 12,000 trained officers and men have been lost or taken prisoner; and crews are more difficult to replace than ships. The U.S., habitually mum on the subject of U-boat sinkings, last week revealed for the first time the capture of a submarine contingent: the Coast Guard cutter Icarus last June depth-charged a U-boat, blew it to the surface, rescued 33 of the crew. The shattered sub sank into the depths which...
...first public information on how it was done. Through censorship from Africa the United Press was allowed to say that Jimmie Doolittle's Mitchell bombers had been carrier-based. But the War Department, which had promised to celebrate the anniversary by telling all, changed its mind, kept mum about Shangrila...