Word: pleased
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Detroit all plants sent workers home on an extended weekend after WPB curtailed their fuel. Then by newspaper and radio pleas they frantically tried to get them back after WPB changed its mind. Householders in Columbus, Ohio were told to cut down on their baths, flush their toilets only...
Chuck Schrooder, who has about six months' supply of hair left, just checked and found, strangely enough, his new blues to be ill-fitting. "Sherman was right," says Chuck; "wonder if he got his uniforms the same place I got mine!" Sam Wolf learned the real meaning of "Penny Serenade...
"Most Regrettable." Eleanor Roosevelt, who had previously spoken well of Blaze ("a most noble-looking dog") in her syndicated column, said she was shocked. Presidential Secretary Steve Early averred that it was all "a most regrettable combination of errors." A.T.C.'s Major General Harold L. George promised an investigation...
In effect, Murray was putting the kibosh on the eight years of pleas and proposals to merge the A.F. of L. and C.I.O. Murray now proposed: let's fight side by side for prolabor legislation, and forget about reunions. Phil Murray was obviously not worried about C.I.O.'s...
WPB finally answered the pleas for help of the Office of Defense Transportation, jittery over the truck shortage. WPB authorized the manufacture, quarterly, of 10,000 light civilian trucks, which have not been made since February 1942. WPB further raised the hopes of civilians for more durable goods by placing...