Word: patly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decade after World War I London's East Enders had a pat apology for any thin-cheeked, jittery, neurotic child: "You'll have to excuse her. She's a war baby-was born the night a bomb fell two streets away." Last week 120,000 young Londoners were growing up on the firing line of another and worse...
Foxy, balding Senator Pat Harrison lost $14 at bridge to a Columbia Broadcasting System official, then bet him $15 to $10 that the Chicago Bears would trim the Washington Redskin footballers-and a further dollar-a-point on the score. Next day he took his cocky pal to the field, gloated as the Bears rioted to a 73-to-0 victory, earned him $83 at the rate of $1.38 for every minute of play...
...Presidential order, CAA was taken from its independent status last May, made a bureau under the Department of Commerce. Part of the order abolished the independent Air Safety Board. Last week, while many an airman talked behind his hand of disorder and dissension in the new bureau. Senator Pat McCarran once again trumpeted the same charge from a Nevada mountaintop. "Chaos and confusion" in CAB, cried the legislative father of old CAA, were responsible for all three crashes in 1940. The voice of an oldtime airline airman seconded him: Dave Behncke, president of potent Air Line Pilots' Association...
...Board] was abolished by Reorganization Plan No. 4. They know it can be done again by reestablishing the Air Safety Board to investigate accidents, and to make recommendations as a result of its investigations, to prevent accidents, and to make investigations into situations that may be potential crashes. ..." From Pat McCarran came a grim promise: a bill to be filed in January, re-establishing...
...Batt's indications were no mirage, they meant the end of one of the stormiest battles yet behind the scenes of the Defense Commission. Opposed for weeks were stand-pat steelmen, represented in the Commission by American Iron & Steel Institute Secretary Walter Tower, and expansion-minded New Deal staff economists, who want enough steel to handle defense and normal steel needs both. Mr. Tower has frequently boasted of the industry's readiness to handle any emergency without expanding. Republic Steel's Tom Girdler echoed him: "If ev erything in this country was in as good shape...