Word: ocd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helpful was a small-plane courier-cargo service newly established by OCD's Civil Air Patrol, shuttling between factories and shipping points...
...morning Columnist Clapper read the announcement of Mayris Chaney's appointment to OCD, the Clapper breakfast-table peace was shattered by an oath that shook his family out of their seats. That day his column crystallized the general feeling that Mrs. Roosevelt should retire from politics. Nevertheless, Mrs. Roosevelt kept him on her visiting list...
...OCD and OPA last year the Scouts collected 10,500,000 of the 12,000,000 lb. of aluminum collected in all the nation...
Portlanders temporarily stopped wondering where vacation gasoline was coming from, let little thrills teeter up & down their spines. Things were getting as exciting as right after Pearl Harbor. They were miffed when OCD's James M. Landis said they were behind the East in preparations (Eleanor Roosevelt had said just the opposite), but their complacency was restored when he added that Portland was better prepared than San Francisco and cities to the south. Actually, 75,000 Portlanders are schooled in civilian defense and regularly on the alert, but the other 250,000 peoples are merely excited...
...Steel helmets appeared. Planes went over at night, even through San Francisco fogs. Reporters learned that they were subject to the Articles of War (whatever they were), "in the event of military action." Rumors were fed by cancellation of Army weekend leaves and the request that OCD workers stay home on Memorial Day. The War Department increased the general buck fever by asking editors and publishers not to bannerize bombing raids, asking columnists to be casual...