Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chairman William H. Davis of the War Labor Board, rock-solid defender of Little Steel, finally conceded that his prize formula was outmoded. In a monthly report to the Senate he said: "As the months flow by and the board continues to hold wages ... we become increasingly conscious of the fact that we are asking one segment of our society to do its part to protect all Americans from the ravages of inflation . . . [although] a similar obligation has not been placed as heavily upon . . . some of the other segments of this society...
Secretary Harold L. Ickes, Solid Fuels Administrator, was taken over the coals in the periodical whoop-de-do of Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners club, which costumed him appropriately (see cut), hazed him in song and story, made him a member...
...every possible recreation facility, from chess to deep-sea fishing. Sports activities are there if he wants them, but he can take them or leave them, just as he likes. For those too taut to ease off in a couple of weeks, the Center has special camps for solid rest...
...Duke of Wellington did both. When he returned to England after beating Napoleon's marshals in Spain, Englishmen made the dusty turnpike road from Dover to London "one long roaring cheer." He rode unmoved, and apparently unhearing, through 60 solid miles of praise. He believed that if you ignored the fickle crowd's catcalls you should also ignore its plaudits, and as a commander in Spain he had had to ignore its criticisms. Not many years later he was the most unpopular man in England. Once a huge mob stormed his mansion and smashed every window while...
Forthwith, Boston papers began carrying stories and editorials on the city's unwholesome antiSemitism. In the months before PM's story was printed, not one had published a solid word on the subject. Readers now wondered why. They soon got a partial answer...