Word: ruckus
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...week. It was no longer a $200,000,000 Presidential pump-priming scheme. With its boondoggling finery removed, the great dead ditch was now a $44,000,000 barge canal with a wartime-living excuse: to mitigate the East Coast oil shortage. But it raised the same old political ruckus-and the pros & cons were still dead white and coal black...
...haired Senator Harry Byrd's Joint Economy Committee swung a haymaker at Government "quiz mania," counted 7,025 separate questionnaires and reports sent out by Federal agencies in 18 months. Day before, Byrd had warmed up in a ruckus over OWI's new magazine Victory. He promised investigation of all "Government propaganda ventures...
Lindley: "Any nomination which creates a political ruckus in which no vital question of policy is at stake must be regarded as a political mistake...
...units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the same amount of steel, 169 units of compressor horsepower, plus 27 tons of copper-the scarcest metal of all-v. almost no copper for oil. In the face of this ruckus, the final decision of the rubbermen is that there is no sense in building any new raw-material capacity (even if it could be built fast) as long as petroleum and alcohol between them can fill this bill...
...last December, industry had wanted a rule-no further discussion of the closed shop until war's end-made part of the pact. President Roosevelt rang down the curtain just as the show got hot, accepted a three-point peace formula agreeable to all, ignored the closed-shop ruckus...