Word: slough
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well through the slough of reconversion. So said Civilian Production Administrator John D. Small last week. In his report, CPAster Small said that the low point in the shift from war to peace production had been passed in September. Said he: "The outstanding feature ... is the small amount of ... disemployment outside the automobile industry...
...capital there was a damper on this mood of hope. Three sudden events-the make-up of the Russian delegation to San Francisco, the disclosure of the secret Yalta voting agreement, and the inter-Allied row over the Lublin Poles (see INTERNATIONAL)-had thrown official Washington into a slough of despond. In the State Department, there was open talk of postponing the San Francisco Conference. This mood would probably unkink itself, but San Francisco no longer seemed a foregone happy conclusion. The war was unmistakably being won. But what of the peace...
...teammates) to throw a game with the University of Akron; they had also arranged, for an additional $2,000, to toss a later game with St. Francis' College. Racketeers Rosen and Stemmer, byproducts of the big basketball gambling market, had set their sights on a sure way to slough the bookies...
...Communism is another stimulant to Turkish suspicion. Modern Turkey is organized on strict totalitarian lines and is the product of a revolution; 20 years of existence have not yet fully stabilized it. The westernization program of Kamâl Atatürk lifted it out of a medieval slough, but economically and financially it is still far from healthy, and wartime difficulties have stimulated latent inflation...
...characters are dangerously ordinary people, a farmer and his wife, their eldest son, his girl, a soldier from Brooklyn, an intellectual, etc. But Anderson's writing and the cast's understanding acting lift the play from the slough of folksy despond. Together they delicately steer the farmer's son through his promised year of military training and an unconsummated love affair, to a hero's death on Bataan without once approaching the level on which Hollywood would treat such a story. This story, after all, is very close to us. Raised during the twenty years of peace and pacifism...