Word: owis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Embarrassed his Office of War Information and, his old spelling teacher by writing Generalissimo with two l's in a longhand letter transmitted to China's Chiang Kai-shek at the opening of a new radiophoto link with Chungking. OWI hastily blotted the extra l with ink eradicator. Chinese spokesmen, with traditional politeness, took the incident more calmly. They often spelled Generalissimo with two l's when using English, they said; moreover, what was the difference after it was rendered into Chinese...
...London, New York Pier aid Tribune ex-Critic Richard Watts Jr., now Dublin representative for OWI, saw Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, turned himself inside out. Recalling that "all of us" who saw the 1939 production in Manhattan thought the play "hopelessly outmoded," he now found it "one of the great comedies,""one of the incomparable things of the theater," recanted, declaring that in 1939 "we were absurdly wrong...
...Neills, who sired Malarkey with Griggs last spring in a pet over the sameness of radio's patriotic messages. The Office of War Information decided last fortnight that Malarkey was sufficiently obnoxious to deserve a wider audience. He will soon be drawn as a cartoon character, under OWI auspices...
...Office of War Information last week quietly announced the first U.S. campaign of economic warfare designed to win conquered natives to the United Nations' cause. Over $5,000,000 of civilian goods, said OWI, had been purchased with Lend-Lease funds for shipment to French North Africa. Some 6,000 tons of sugar, kerosene, green tea, matches, newsprint, cheap textiles and clothing, medicines, etc., are already en route, 7,000 tons more are awaiting shipment and "additional civilian supplies of many times that value" are to be purchased soon...
...plan was brilliant: since, as OWI pointed out last week, "the Nazis have stripped North Africa," it can do enormous good to the United Nations to supply newly conquered nations with the civilian necessities they have had to learn to do without under Axis control. Moreover, North Africa has been so gutted that its production is not even self-sufficient, must be raised by U.S. aid before the U.S. can really cash in on its conquest...