Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is about as much chance of the Solid South going Republican in 1944 as of Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune turning New Dealer. I hereby proffer and promise to swim from Key West to Cuba, and tow a loaded barge in the bargain, if so many as three states of the South go Republican next year...
Nobody needs to get alarmed about the bilious blasts of those gyrating Governors who sounded off at Tallahassee (TIME, April 5). The two who were most vociferous and vehement about breaking the Solid South were elected Governors of their respective states largely because the good people of Georgia and Louisiana were disgusted with two intolerable buffoons, in the guise of Governor, who were ruining the good names of these great states...
...solid, crashing exception has been Union Pacific's bald, blunt, bull-built William M. Jeffers. As rubber czar, he memorized the Baruch report, especially the passage saying that "the program should be bulled through." Operating day & night on a devil-take-the-hindmost policy, "Bull Bill" Jeffers has butted his brow through so many walls, bellowed down so many other czars that he finally got a super-duper WPB priority overriding most other priorities...
Having lined up the Bishops, who in their oaths promise to line up the lesser clergy, he has cleared the way for lining up the people. On the surface the idea looks politically solid. But poverty, hunger and thousands of Loyalists rotting in Franco's prisons may prove it flimsier than it appears, may also be a strain on Bishops' oaths...
Germ of this solid idea was born a year ago when West Coast aircraft manufacturers, including Donald Douglas, Robert Gross of Lockheed and others, decided to pool the know-how of their companies for the duration, and to exchange scarce parts, scarcer raw materials, even jewel-precious engineering and manpower talents. So successful was their cooperation that East Coast producers soon followed their lead...