Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been in the U.S. Merchant Marine for over twelve years and had made plans to quit and go ashore this past March. The attack on Pearl Harbor ended all such pleasant thoughts...
Shippers studying these figures quit worrying about a car shortage at the 1942 fall peak, began worrying about a locomotive shortage instead. Last year carloadings never rose more than 90,000 above the May average. This fall there will be 80,000 new cars in service, less 13,000 old ones scrapped. At last year's 922,000 carloadings high there were still 40,000 cars in reserve. That means that the roads should be all right this fall even if loadings rise twice as much as last year from May to October. Some shippers think they may actually...
...usual appeared; the new Houghton Library for rare books was dedicated on February 28; the threatened death of the "Mole" in the Dick Tracy comic strip had brought residents of Adams House up in arms for his defense, bombarding Chester Gould with telegrams and letters; Clark Hodder, hockey coach, quit under fire, because of a training break he authorized at Lake Placid; and intercollegiate sports programs continued practically as usual...
...Board's method would require all war industries to hire labor only through the U.S. Employment Service. The USES would not place men in new jobs solely because they want more pay. Actually the order would deprive no man of his right to quit, but if he did quit be must look for work in nonwar industries, thereby losing his deferred draft status. In short: work or fight-and work where...
...York City Police Department "lost-strayed-or-stolen" auction, 1,500 bidders bypassed 155 second-hand cars (except as junk), bid up to $37 for second-hand bicycles. In the Carolinas, new and used-car sales were off 50%; in Florida, many a disgusted dealer got ready to quit; in Maine, there were more sellers than buyers. Even in the gasoline-rich West and Midwest, rumors of rationing slowed sales down...