Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ernest ("The Man With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...
Last week a new potential bottleneck loomed on the defense horizon : 'U. S. businessmen. At the top, where there is no second shift, the pressure was mounting. It was not a uniform pressure; only managers with defense orders felt it seriously, bankers and salesmen still got to the club or the first tee on time. But all over the U. S., high-pressure spots were multiplying. Presidents and general managers canceled trips to Palm Beach, ate lunch and dinner at their desks. Wives fretted. Doctors warned. But still U. S. businessmen came early and left late...
...Most of the camp construction work is done by farmers, for big wages. Comer hopes they will use the money to buy the farms on which they have been tenants heretofore, and to improve buildings and equipment. This would give the South a new standard of farm income, a shift from cotton and tobacco to food crops, a permanently increased purchasing power. The South also is getting a chance now to train workers; even when the shell plants fold up, the new supply of trained men will be an invitation to new industries...
Just back from England after five months as a London correspondent for the Herald Tribune, Steve Greene '37 yesterday told of the vast shift in sentiment toward the United States. "West enders used to hiss every American that came on the screen back in September when the Blitz first began," he stated...
...rest of the team has been little changed. Ted Schoenberg should turn in his consistently good performance in the 128-pound spot. The weight shift tried with such success in the Tufts meet will be continued. Dick Thomas, Lee Ackerman, Tom Lacy, and Dick Aldrich have all been shifted to lower weights, so that they fill the 145 to 175-pound spots respectively...