Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wiry, sharp-witted Economic Director Jimmy Byrnes this week served blunt notice that even if he has to void laws he is going to attack the worst aspect of the price control snarl, namely that while luxury goods prices (see p. 83) are being held down food prices are soaring...
...wise old U.S. Transportation Boss Joseph B. Eastman has pleaded for tire conservation. For Eastman, working 16-18 hours a day, seven days a week, to keep all transportation rolling smoothly, knows better than any other man that when trucks and busses wear down to their rims, the traffic snarl on the railroads will be beyond unraveling. Last week, tired of preachments without results, Eastman's Office of Defense Transportation got tough, slammed the brakes on virtually all the nation's five million trucks, 154,000 busses and 50,000-odd taxis. After Nov. 15 none of these...
Last week, as India's transport system, foods distribution, civil administration and war production began to snarl and slump, the Japanese were missing no political busses. They were indoctrinating Indian soldiers captured in Singapore and Burma, training them as an "army of liberation" for the day when the attack came...
...Statue of Liberty stepped off her pedestal and went to Manhattan's RCA building with Orson Welles. There, for two hours, she listened to Edward G. Robinson, Jane Cowl, Bob Burns, Jack Pearl, Red Skelton, Fanny Brice, Amos 'n' Andy and other comedians and actors snarl at the Axis, repeat the tales of U.S. heroes, past & present. Some heroes spoke for themselves, by short wave, from England, Hawaii, the Canal Zone...
...military personnel with the balance of their facilities. Efficient training cannot start until the catch-as-catch can system of undergraduate deferment is ended. Meanwhile Paul McNutt's efforts to step on no toes may gain him the 1944 Democratic nomination, but it will not unravel the college snarl...