Word: powwowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...powwow got results. The industry agreed to set aside 5% of production for the armed forces, the estimated amount necessary to meet minimum needs. The oil will be taken out of the already tight civilian supply (5,100,000 bbls. daily against a demand of 5,700,000). To civilian users this meant that the anticipated winter shortage of fuel oil, and other fuels, would be that much worse. But the armed forces would not be operating on starvation rations...
...year; Big Bill Hutcheson, of the carpenters; Dan Tobin, of the teamsters; John Lewis, of the coal miners. They, and eleven others, were the executive council of the A.F.L., the bosses of more than 7,000,000 workingmen, assembled at Miami's Alcazar Hotel for their annual winter powwow...
...Central East (Disc, 6 sides). The first album of Moe Asch's ethnological folk music series (TIME, Feb. 25) was recorded in remote southern republics of the U.S.S.R. The result is not Tchaikovsky's Russia but polyglot: in different sections the music sometimes sounds like an Indian powwow, sometimes like a swirl of bagpipes, sometimes like Chinese temple music. Performance: uneven...
...business sense, there was little doing at the high powwow. The hoboes were glad to be back in Britt (pop.: 2,000), where they had met off & on since 1900. The "big spuds" (city officials) welcomed them because they lured some 10,000 curious North Iowa visitors to town. In gratitude, the boes ladled enough Mulligan stew from billycans to feed the crowd. They chewed the guff about life on the road and the state of the union. All agreed that times were tough. There were so many jobs to be had, it took an iron will to remain...
...National Hotel Exposition- "an annual powwow at which innkeepers forgather to discuss. . . the maintenance of proper standards of insolence among room clerks...