Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...account of the discovery by my son, Ned, and his cousin of a "two-way short-wave station complete with hidden aerial" on Cape Cod. I assume that the basis for your account was my son's letter to me describing the incident which, at the request of OCD officials, had been published in a local newspaper: My letter to you of Aug. 18 raised the question as to the source of your information that this radio station "for months had sent messages to sea-roving Nazi submarines." Certainly no such statement was made...
...Navy men, OPA's Leon Henderson, WPB's William Batt, OCD's James Landis and many another took their turns, the schools' job grew. From young (37) Brigadier General Lawrence S. Kuter they learned that the Army Air Forces relied on them to help train 2,000,000 flyers and ground men. They were exhorted to train 5,000,000 more industrial workers, to teach the U.S. people how to stop inflation, sell war bonds, enlist the nation's 30,000,000 school kids to collect scrap. They were even asked by WPB to contribute...
...anti-sabotage fancywork turned out to be only embroidery: the alleged capture by twelve-year-old Neddie Collins, of Rye, N.Y. of a Nazi radio spy on Cape Cod. Little Ned wrote his father a letter describing such an incident, Mr. Charles Collins showed it to a local OCD official, who gave it to the press. (TIME, unhappily, fell for it, too.) The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed...
...OCD still has headaches: it lacks authority to force a community to prepare for raids (British authorities can withhold funds for equipment from a town that will not cooperate). Here & there OCD is helpless in a muddle of city politics. It suffers a shortage of certain fire-fighting paraphernalia, of gasproof and decontamination clothing...
Besides his progress report to Congress, Jim Landis could take some satisfaction last week from showing his OCD predecessor, rolypoly Mayor LaGuardia, longtime Landis critic, that the OCD-approved jet method of quenching fire bombs worked in 15 seconds (TIME, July 27), that the LaGuardia spray method took...