Word: shake-up
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...Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only a major shake-up could save the day, said the Libbey story...
Such men say openly now that Washington working morale is disintegrating, that a shake-up must come soon, that this is one thing that cannot be postponed until after elections. Some believe that vast reorganizations from top to bottom must be undertaken, that many a Washington bigwig must be fired from many a big job before the tide of battle can be turned...
...biggest, most dramatic shake-up in transportation since the Wright Brothers got their flimsy biplane off the sand at Kitty Hawk is just around the corner-that is, if fabulous Henry J. Kaiser has his way. This week Engineer-Shipbuilder Kaiser pulled all the talk about air freighters right down to earth with a concrete proposal to build in 1943 at least 5,000 giant 70-ton flying boats like the Glenn L. Martin Mars...
...prepared to mobilize for total war. This meant manpower-and woman-power; every man, woman, youth and maid, of every race, color and creed who is not lame or halt or blind. The move was one of potentially vast scope: it meant, if carried all the way through, a shake-up of U.S. life so deep, so wide, so far-reaching it could not yet be grasped. It might take another year or more of total war to bring the earthquake shock full home...
...betting in London was that the Churchill Government would not see the beginning of summer. And the next shake-up would probably send Churchill out of No. 10 Downing St., if not out of the Cabinet altogether. The Rightists would make a last-ditch fight to have Sir John Anderson (perhaps the most powerful behind-the-scenes Cabinet figure) or Oliver Lyttelton named Prime Minister, but the odds were on Sir Stafford Cripps, especially if his mission to India was a success...