Word: potatoe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungarians' Choice. About a week before, Czechoslovakia's Moscow-wise President Benes had suddenly observed out loud that in his opinion Russia would favor Rumania's regaining bleak potato lands of northern Transylvania. To hardy, Russia-hating Magyars, this preference for spineless, graft-ridden Rumanians was the last straw. As the Nazis clamped down on Hungary, hitherto their most obliging satellite, the landowning lords of the Hungarian plain toyed with a desperate plan: to strike into Rumania before the Russians could cross Bessarabia...
Lieut. Henry Hodgkins took a squad into a U-shaped building on one side of the town square. He and his men fought Germans with rifle fire from room to room until the last enemies were chased out. Then two potato-masher grenades flicked in through the window. Two Americans were wounded. By the time another had sprung to the window, the Germans had disappeared into a doorway only ten yards away...
Earned Repose. He had earned his rest. Few men can ever have gone through more plain hell trying to find a place in the special hell of battle. Ben Kuroki's father was a seed-potato grower in Hershey, Neb., a town of about 500 people. Ben and his kid brother Fred (now overseas with an engineer outfit) volunteered for the Army two days after Pearl Harbor, were accepted a month later. Ben landed in the Air Forces and started to run his personal gantlet at Sheppard Field...
...about 18 months the Army, Navy and other war procurement agencies have quick-fingered a hot potato that never grew cool. The problem: How could U.S. war contracts be ended uniformly and quickly so that the industrial plant could speedily shift from one war product to another and reconvert without waste motion...
When a solution seemed finally impossible, the hot potato was tossed over to Elder Statesman Bernie Baruch and his assistant, ex-Wall Street Banker John Milton Hancock. The two cooled it off in just two months and two days. Then the Baruch-Hancock combination presented Home Front Czar James F. Byrnes with a contract-cancellation clause, ready-made to fit almost all fixed-fee contracts. Promptly Czar Jimmy ordered it put into effect. Its two main points...