Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nothing effective is done, the crisis will mount steadily to a peak next spring; 3) currently nothing effective is being done about it. The housewife thought it was shameful-and it was. Sober-sided Paul Willis, head of the Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc., said, without exaggeration: "A scandal far greater than the rubber situation looms in the near future. Unless immediate steps are taken to coordinate this country's system of food production and distribution, a major food shortage is a certainty...
First time Senator Bunker jumped into the news with magnesium (TIME, April 20) he had a scandal story that sizzled even long-untouchable Jesse Jones: he charged that Basic Magnesium Inc., which had contracted to build and run the plant for the Government's Defense Plants Corp., had bargained so well with Banker Jones that it stood to make a 4,280% profit on its investment. Jesse harrumphed about "statements unworthy of a U.S. Senator . . . false and misleading," and the public forgot. In any case, the exorbitancy of the fees Jesse allowed Basic Magnesium Inc. depended largely on whether...
...Junior's remote ancestors used to potshoot Brahmans to relieve an inferiority complex because he himself was born in a lower caste. His grandfather was a horse-racing hellion. His father was forced to abdicate after a scandal with the dancing girl Mumtaz Begum, but later settled down with his third wife, the sari-wearing Nancy Miller, Seattle sorority girl. Junior also married an American girl, the former Mrs. Margaret Lawler Branyen, after his first wife died. She is now ill in Santa Barbara. With his wives Junior carried on rural uplift work which gave the Untouchables...
...straight-faced OWI press release last week was the first public sign of a war production scandal that has long seethed underground in Washington. The brief announcement said only that Colonel Charles R. Baxter of Army Ordnance had been made Chief of a new Materials Redistribution Branch of WPB, successor to the Inventory & Requisitioning Branch. But it meant that after ten wasted months the U.S. was finally going to do something about frustrated freight...
...Bill Jeffers tackled the chaotic Rubber Scandal this week in the hellbent, direct-action way he has run the Union Pacific Railroad...