Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the foreign consulates and business houses overlooking Yokohama harbor the bulk of the Japanese Fleet was in plain sight last week: the Fleet had suddenly steamed into the harbor and dropped anchor with a rattle and splash. The publicity attending this move looked like a sign that Japan was ready for adventure and did not care who knew...
...Japan still had a sharp eye cocked north, to see if Russia dared weaken her Far Eastern Red Banner Armies to support the armies defending Moscow. Reason for the Fleet's presence in Yokohama harbor was made plain by Navy Spokesman Rear Admiral Minoru Mayeda, who said: "A further crisis might arise in the Sea of Japan itself, should Vladivostok take on an anti-Japanese complexion. You may be sure that the Imperial Navy is prepared to meet any emergency...
...there was no business. Each night Ambassador Laurence Steinhardt and his aides drove 20 miles northeast of threatened Moscow to the emergency quarters appropriately named "The Refuge," on a high bluff overlooking the roaring Klyasma River. There, on an estate surrounded by a high picket fence, in a comfortable, plain, seven-room house, the U.S. Diplomatic and Consular representatives prepared to guard the interests of the U.S. in one-sixth of the earth's surface. They found themselves almost as isolated as the pioneers of the old West, in their stockades in Indian territory...
...auto industry, just completing the second biggest year in its history, last week faced the fact that next year would be one of its toughest. In Washington, OPM officials and 56 top-drawer auto executives met behind closed doors for an overdue session of plain talk about the wartime role of the nation's greatest peacetime industry. Upshot: not many automobiles will be made in Detroit next year, but a lot more munitions. Bill Knudsen promised to triple the industry's present defense contracts...
Power. The International Section generators cannot be furnishing power before 1945. But with TVA and Bonneville working overtime on aluminum production, the Seaway's power possibilities look unusually inviting in 1941. That industrial New York State needs more power is plain. By 1942 its power capacity will be 5,266.000 kw.; but 1944 demand (not counting that of two aluminum plants proposed last week-see p. 28) is estimated at 5,176,000 kw. by the New York State Power Authority, which calls this slender margin "unthinkable...