Word: scans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mandatory priorities" was OPM's phrase for this control. Manufacturer Reeves, many another in his spot understood precisely what the phrase meant. For him, it meant that his aluminum supplier (Alcoa) now had to send its order books to Washington once a month. Somebody in OPM would carefully scan those books, allot to each would-be buyer one of a series of preference ratings. If Mr. Reeves by some miracle were rated AA, his aluminum would be shipped posthaste. But top ratings were reserved for such MUST customers as aircraft manufacturers. Other ratings ran all the way down...
...these details emerged, the Yale Record broke off relations with the News, described the proposed celebration as "a raw and vulgar exhibition." The Smith College Scan printed a bitter editorial. Miss Juliana Cutting, a Manhattan social secretary, wired: "SORRY, NEVER HEARD OF SADIE...
...front row saw all the sure signs that the President was waiting to spring something -he pursed his lips, stretched his big cheeks and rolled his tongue against them as he stared at the ceiling-an omen from which Washington newsmen deduce the Presidential mood as fishermen scan the sky for breaks in the weather. A blurt by Secretary Steve Early helped start the conference-as they seldom start these days-with a laugh. The President announced that at 2:45 the next day he would dedicate three schools-"three at once."Quickly Steve Early corrected him: "At a quarter...
...Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...
...that Harvard's liberal education is an adulterated concoction; but this is no reason why Harvard should turn resignedly to handicraft and dentistry as something that the boys can put their fingers on. If Harvard fears that, as a liberal arts college, it has suffered shipwreck, it can still scan the horizon for a savior before dropping to the bottom...