Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signalman Jones had made the best speech in favor of the bill. It finally passed, 265-to-110. But the bill's chances of becoming law are poor. It may never be reported out of the Senate's Judiciary Committee. And the same Senate poll-taxers still stand ready to talk it to death as they did last year. The stellar role will probably fall to Mississippi's bantam, big-eared, bombast-loving Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo. Last week he promised to filibuster the bill for 18 months...
...well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height on the Continent, Thörnell took a poor view of Sweden's ability to defend herself for any length of time. But with the Swedish navy of light cruisers, destroyers and 50-knot-an-hour motor torpedo boats to harass the enemy, Thörnell could risk a war-provided there was likelihood of Allied success in Norway...
...from 6,400,000 population) are partly met through almost confiscatory taxes in the higher brackets. Rationing covers everything from clothes to tennis balls and all foods except fish (which is too perishable) and fresh vegetables. Laborers doing heavy work and the children of the poor receive extra rations. All rationed items on restaurant menus require coupons...
...program on a rival network station, it could be-and sometimes was-kicked off on short notice. What the other effects may be is still uncertain. Affiliated stations, now able to pick & choose, might produce broadcasting chaos by greedily grabbing for the networks' best audience programs, leaving poor pickings to the others. Such a development might lead the networks to drop worthy, unprofitable sustaining programs...
...many different people. Architects have designed prefabricated all-steel trailer houses, houses that would come in packages, factory-built "bubble" houses looking like brimless derbies. Prefabrication has been steadily bedeviled by technicalities, the economics of production, building trades' obstructionism, public unconcern. But every once in a while poor, young prefabrication makes news. Last week the Government approved another prefabrication project for defense housing (it had already approved 40 others). The designers: U.S. Architect Paul Lester Wiener, Spain's Town Planner José Luis Sert...