Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis knows that aid for the indicted miners would infuriate a sizable percentage of U.M.W. members who resented the outlaw strikes and an even larger percentage of U.S. citizens who consider such strikes near treason. Local leaders believe that the sly Old Man of the Mines, considers these cases poor grounds for a Supreme Court fight. But with or without U.M.W., the indictments will almost certainly lead to legal actions which will test how enforceable, how constitutional the Smith-Connally-Harness Act is. The U.S. got one indication of this last week...
...Nazis have been taking all able-bodied men between 16 and 60 years of age, forcing them to work on the island's defenses, building roads, rolling airfields, making concrete breastworks and pillboxes. The pay is poor, amounting to about two pounds of bread for nine days' work...
...Snipers. Within the American lines, sniper fire, as heavy as any yet seen, was being encountered. Snipers hit their mark only once in 20 to 40 shots, but they shot so much that they caused numerous casualties. Well-disciplined troops ignored the snipers, considering such poor marksmen beneath their notice, but the snipers strained the morale of unseasoned troops. A curious point about Jap snipers: their effectiveness in critical moments suggested that they might not be trying too hard, lest their proficiency lead to stronger measures for their elimination...
...Seattle's booming shipyards are higher, drain off Boeing's workers as fast as they can be trained; 2) Seattle is desperately overcrowded; rents and food prices are skyhigh; new workers soon find out that high war pay is a deception; 3) Boeing labor relations are poor...
...Cockeye Johnny, self-styled King of the Gypsies. Says Johnny: "To the Department of Welfare, I may not be no king and to the King of England, I may not be no king, but to those poor, persecuted gypsies that I run myself knock-kneed looking after their personal welfare, I am king." A gin drinker, Johnny mixes it with Pepsi-Cola, calls it old popskull, consumes five quarts of gin a week. Johnny believes there are but two kinds of merchandise: "lost and unlost. Anything that ain't nailed down is lost." Johnny gets easily worked up over...