Word: sores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prominent as a sore thumb on the fumbling fist of the U.S. war effort was the Bossert Co., Inc. of Utica, N.Y. last week. The Bossert Co., which in peacetime makes steel stampings, has been humming 20 hours a day, turning out an order of 1,000,000 cases for 75-mm. artillery shells. So fast did it turn out its brass cases that other plants fell behind in providing the other parts. From the U.S. Army came a strange command: slow up. Bossert Co. went back to an eight-hour day until further notice...
...civic beefing-fests and sub-contracting-klatches caused by the fact and fear of priorities unemployment, one in Toledo last week gave the most hope of results. Toledoans were sore. They had sent Washington an ultimatum: come to the meeting and do some explaining, or stay away and be blasted. Washington came. Even the Army was there, and even the Army made some commitments...
...Toledoans got sore. In the Hotel Secor ballroom last week they formed a solid labor-capital phalanx. Chunky, aggressive Charles E. Swartzbaugh (electrical appliances) was there with representatives of 88 other Toledo firms. Kenneth Cole of C.I.O., John M. Froehlich of A.F. of L., Earl Streeter of the Mechanics' Educational Society were there...
...subject has been a sore one for several years, but no publicity has been given it since the spring of 1940 when the CRIMSON printed an editorial urging that a new system be adopted. It was generally felt that the swimming requirements were too strict and unfair in comparison to other winter sports in which many more men gained awards...
...camp served a dual purpose in the military life of Harvard's future Field Artillery officers. First it taught them how to fire guns, how to hit a target with a 75 shell, how to camoflage a truck, and 101 other little tricks of How to Make People Sore and Influence Enemies...