Word: poorly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines of communications were uncertain. The railroads often did not run because the railway personnel ran away or was intimidated by Burmese. Our radio communication between echelons was poor...
...wartime U.S. the poor were growing richer, the rich poorer. War-factory payrolls had brought back World War I's silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...
...hotbed of tire bootlegging is Los Angeles. Reasons: 1) the city has a poor transportation system, rambles over 450 square miles; 2) Angelinos are cash-rich and conscience-poor. Last week one cinemactress laid out $800 for eight tires, had them hijacked out of her garage the very next night. And barflies bandied the story of a film writer who bought five complete sets of tires. Month ago police nabbed tire dealer Guy O. Bryan, were flabbergasted when he freely admitted selling $28,000 worth of new tires since Pearl Harbor. Gloomed an OPA official: "There is an uncontrolled reservoir...
...worst, it is certainly the most disappointing. Playwrights like Odets, Maxwell Anderson, Ben Hecht, Marc Connolly, and John Steinbeck exhibited plays that failed to win either critical or public acclaim. Various reasons have been advanced for the poor theatrical season: the critics blame it on confused playwrights; the playwrights on destructive criticism; and the procedures blame it on present economic conditions, on labor unions, on critics, and on the public...
...classes that, during the winter, are open to them free of charge. Intending the summer session as a continuation of the regular college, the University should allow undergraduates their usual auditing privileges. Many will have neither the interest nor the time to attend other courses, but it is a poor plan to restrict students who are interested in a more varied education or who wish to correlate for September divisionals...