Word: reopener
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...last 13 years those grass-grown, rusting acres have made Philadelphians melancholy. Four times attempts were made to reopen Cramp's; all four failed. Not even the Government's $400,000,000 merchant-marine program could put Cramp's back in business. In mid-1939 one Philadelphia paper screamed: "6,000 Jobs [in Cramp's] If City Acts." But the City Council, suspicious of a stock-selling scheme, refused to give up a $1,312,000 tax claim...
Aware that the invasion of Yünnan Province through Indo-China would put a serious crimp in his resistance and would enable the Japanese to cut the Burma Road should the British decide to reopen it, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek announced from Chungking that Chinese troops would counter-invade if Japanese forces were permitted to enter French Indo-China "under whatever pretext and whatever conditions...
Last week U. S. campuses began to reopen under the shadow of war. Not a few jittery college presidents had feared that defense jobs and impending conscription might induce some students to drop out. Counting their fall enrollments last week, most colleges found them close to normal. An exception was huge University of California, which had 15,342 students, 700 fewer than last year, and blamed...
...gentlemen who looked at all the facts, calmly demanded more speed, were Franklin Roosevelt and his Republican Secretary of the Navy, Frank Knox. Publisher Knox set to work to advance the Navy's deadlines, by last week had done nobly. In negotiation were arrangements to reopen the abandoned, rotting Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia (which turned out many a World War I emergency vessel). Lined up were other private yards at Chester, Pa., Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Beaumont, Tex., Tampa, Fla., Birmingham, Ala., Oakland, Calif., Wilmington, Del. In collaboration with Labor's Defense Commissioner Sidney Hillman, Secretary Knox...
...strictly enforced bathing-suit regulations bedecked the bosoms of French society's semi-nude sun cult. In Paris the German military authorities forbade Frenchwomen to use red lacquer on their fingernails on the grounds that it was a demoralizing Jewish-Oriental habit. The Folies-Bergere was scheduled to reopen under German supervision with less exposed anatomy and a German-speaking master of ceremonies...