Word: spotlight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington few die and none resign, if they can possibly avoid it. "Going Washington" is a disease as definite as "going Hollywood." Czars who have been superseded or are being circumvented cling on desperately, loth to give up their places on the fringe of the spotlight...
...Result: the rubber program is shaping up excellently. Then, wholly uninfected by Washington, he announced that, barring production mishaps, he would resign on July 1 and go back to his job as president of Union Pacific. This was cheering news; apparently one man could surmount the lure of the spotlight...
...Washington this week a big spotlight was thrown on one of the most important, least understood U.S. laws. The renegotiation law was passed by Congress last April to govern the process whereby the Army & Navy regularly negotiate their war-production contracts over & over again to prevent excessive war profits. In the spotlight was a lucid, compact 19-page report by the Senate's hard-working Tru man Investigating Committee. The report lambasted the four price boards (Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Treasury) for "confusion [and] too much secrecy," and suggested improvements...
...outdone by our more prominent neighbors, the Communications and Supply School, who seem to be setting their share of the spotlight, we have decided to try to give you some in treating information about overselves...
...decade in which Washington held the spotlight, the U.S. paid little attention to its State legislatures. But last fall's election, which shook Washington, filled State Capitols with grassroots, State's-rights men, up in arms against Government-by-directive...