Word: shockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Painfully aware of the grocery runs started by other rationing announcements, Information Director Elmer Davis prefaced Claude Wickard's shocker with an explanation and a plea. Everybody knew that it would be better to keep rationing plans secret until they were ready to be enforced, said he. But this program had to be explained to hundreds of thousands of grocers and to 1,500,000 Office of Price Administration volunteers; "partial and mistaken stones" of the plans were bound to get around; "it seemed best to tell the people tonight what is intended...
...Glass Key (Paramount) is the best melodrama since The Maltese Falcon (TIME, Oct. 20, 1941), also based on a Dashiell Hammett shocker. It also clears up any lingering doubts about the status of 29-year-old Alan Ladd. He is the livest thing to turn up in this sort of scarehead since James Cagney in The Public Enemy...
...workmen, too few foremen, long waits, misplanned work, shovel-leaning by workers who have nothing to do. One bad example was turned up last week in Seattle, where for two weeks Reporter Don Magnuson worked in a shipyard building destroyers, found enough loafing and inefficiency for a series of shocker stories for the Seattle Times. Reported Magnuson...
...sometimes he overdoes. If corpses dropped less often than ripe plums, in less tricky postures of amazement at death, and if fingers moved less automatically to triggers, this would have been a better novel. Even as it is, a queer cross between a Freudian dream and a Grand Guignol shocker, it is good enough to suggest that it will almost certainly sire a better...
People with long memories smiled a pale smile at the thought of the good old days when a favorite winter indoor sport was beefing over the annual deficit, when a couple of spent billions was a shocker. One of the fixtures each January had been the annual calculations of how much more the President had spent during the New Deal than most of the other Presidents put together. Now the budget had gone far beyond even a grim joke...