Word: squawked
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...plan brought a loud squawk from the Department of Commerce's Office of International Trade Operations. OIT, which would have to administer the CPA plan through export-license control, hated the thought of curbing foreign trade at a time when the U.S, was asking the rest of the world to relax trade restrictions. (Commercial exports in May were $649 million, highest since January 1921.) But there had been no boom since OPA's death. If a boom started, OIT could clamp on controls in 24 hours. In effect, CPA was turning on the hose before the fire started...
...this point the U.S. stuck its neighborly nose into the deal and raised a loud, bad-neighborly squawk. Washington protested that an exclusive, two-way transaction (at 60? a bushel less than the U.S. price) would shut U.S. wheat out of the British market. This did not matter now, but in years of surplus crops it might cost the U.S. farmer plenty. Furthermore, the State Department warned that the British loan, still awaiting House approval, might lose enough votes from the wheat-producing West to be defeated. Britain bowed; Strachey flew home empty handed...
...week the potent General Workers Union (100,000 dues payers) staged a one-day general strike, ostensibly in protest against the rising cost of living (up 25% in a year). Real reason: the Government had long wanted to halt spiraling prices but needed popular support to squelch the expected squawk from businessmen. It was all carefully arranged. Enrique Rodriguez, hard-bitten union boss, was summoned; he agreed to call a 24-hour general strike "in support of the Government." By special union dispensation, there was one exception: because Uruguayans take pride in courtesies to foreign tourists, buses moved foreign vacationists...
...merely a sop to the crowd and whose desire is to save his niece's life; and he is played with chilling elegance by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. If Antigone has ethics on her side, Creon has logic on his-which may explain why the Nazis raised no squawk...
...many reporters (300-odd) scrambling around the battleship Missouri in Tokyo harbor last week that they spilled over their assigned space on the ship's deck. Dozens of the U.S. newsmen were looking for Joe Blow, the local boy who made good. Aboard one destroyer transport, the squawk box ordered all New York men to double to the fo'c'sle to meet the New York Times's representative. He turned out to be the Times's general manager himself, Brigadier General Julius Ochs Adler. Lesser reporters, many with the names of their papers lettered...