Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Policeman Yacko, 36, father of six: "If I quit here, I lose my seniority and everything I've been working for for twelve years. If I stay and get drafted, who is going to support my family...
...Short, affable Professor Donald H. Wallace quit as acting deputy for price control, became an OPA economic adviser. Having helped put OPA together in its early days, he will remain "if it seems the most useful way to serve the war effort." Able Professor Wallace (on leave from Williams College) has receding brown hair, might easily pass for a businessman. Said he: "I'm glad to see the place get a new lease on life...
...string correspondents shook their heads last winter and spring every time a peace rumor emerged from Helsinki. Wait, they counseled, until the name Paasikivi appears; that will be time enough to expect results. Paasikivi knows the Russians, knows how to deal with Stalin. When the Finns really want to quit, they will call on Paasikivi to go to Moscow...
...first, Dodger fans could not see the new wood for the trees sold down the river. Idolized Camilli, sacked, quit baseball for good. Onetime great hitter Medwick, sold at the waiver price, was blasting base knocks for the rival New York Giants. Heady from two champagne years, Brooklynites were tasting punctured seltzer water. Brooklyn's erstwhile rabid rooters felt that it was Rickey who had left the cap off. They needed more than two hands to catalog his infamies and betrayals. Bleachers were full of "Down with Rickey" signs...
Outspoken Browning quit SPAB because he could not stand the red tape. He helped Donald Nelson set up WPB, moved over to the Army in 1942. Commissioned a colonel, he joyfully went to hacking red tape in Army procurement. His first job: boiling down procurement regulations from 1,500 pages to 100. He also set up a system of periodic pricing of war contracts to give industrialists an added incentive to cut costs and boost production (TIME, March...