Word: okaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Morgan's specialty is moody satire, his weakness elaborate puns. Among his best broadcasts was a take-off on Walter Winchell ("Aside to F.D.R., 'Not yet.' . . . Aside to Winston Churchill, 'Okay if you say so.' ... Aside to J. Edgar Hoover, 'What do you want me to do this week...
...Santos green). Then the boys put on more heat through the South America-conscious State Department, got OPA to okay a blanket coverage of higher freight, insurance and other wartime costs. Meanwhile, retail coffee prices have jumped 20-30% since OPA's first coffee ceiling. But this week...
...build a bomber engine plant in Chicago. Scooped correspondents besieged an officer responsible for such announcements. Said he: "Even if it's true, you can't print it," ignoring the patent fact that it had just been printed. The War Department then retreated to a second line: okay, the contract is news, but don't use the name or type of engine Chrysler is to build. Lieut. General William S. Knudsen characteristically ignored this piece of policy, told Chicago reporters that Chrysler was to go into production on twelve-cylinder, air-cooled Wright engines ("the biggest motors...
Less typewriter clatter in the U.S., more small-arms clatter on all fronts was a WPB demand last week. Typewriter men, called to Washington to view a table full of knocked-down rifles, revolvers, and other arms, nodded a grim okay. Some were already making 40-mm. projectiles, primers, fire-control equipment. Now they will make more...
...works 10-12 hours daily. When expansion plans were afoot last year, she was in a Wichita hospital having her second baby. But she had a direct hospital-plant telephone and the directors met at her bedside. Later she and two associates went to Washington, got Emil Schram to okay a $13,540,508 RFC revolving credit...