Word: notes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical officer who has served in many Army hospitals since December 1941, the shortage of nurses and the imminent drafting of nurses strike a very peculiar note...
...smokers, inhaling more air than they liked last week, there was a sardonic note of cheer. So many cigarets were being diverted into the black market that racketeers grumbled that prices were falling. In Manhattan, where tobacconists guessed that half of all the popular-brand cigarets were being sold over the ceiling, black market wholesale prices were down 30? a carton from the peak...
Cried the Philadelphia Record, "John Lewis is brandishing a coal shovel over the heads of the American people again." But when he faced the operators and U.M.W. representatives in the ballroom of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week, John Lewis spoke softly. With just the right note of threat and regret, he said he hoped that "the public and Government will not be inconvenienced through stoppage or loss of tonnage vital to ... our war program...
...Capitol Hill last week to ask Congress to extend OPA for another 18 months. As usual, Adman Bowles was armed with a great sheaf of adman's charts-150 of them-to show what OPA had been doing. As usual, he was urbane, softspoken, deferential. Only one note was missing in the interview. The rabbit-punching truculence with which Congressional committees have usually greeted OPAsters in the past was gone. This time the Senate's Banking & Currency Committee was on Chester Bowles's side from the beginning...
...Average Man is now beloved and honored. When he is in uniform, Ernie Pyle and a host of other correspondents watch him, note his casual expressions, solicit his opinions, record his hopes and fears, marvel at his fortitude. When he is in civilian clothes, the public opinion polls eagerly tabulate his beliefs, his prejudices, his tastes. Few contemporary novels reflect this revolution in the status of the Average Man so sharply as Lower than Angels. Its hero is a character Sinclair Lewis might have drawn: Marvin Lang, son of a Staten Island delicatessen merchant. The story records his progress...