Word: straighten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lustig promptly protested the News story. He insisted that the Treasury's probe had been requested by him to straighten out his books, that much of the cash owed the Treasury had already been paid. His explanation for the cash on hand revealed some of the tribulations of running a restaurant chain under OPA ceilings. Said he, with unblushing candor: "It is common knowledge today that many articles for consumption in public eating places as well as at home can only be purchased with cash...
...gain-consistency -will arise from the fact that for the first time in twelve years the White House and the State Department can be expected to think alike. The twists and turns of U.S. policy, which once bewildered our allies as well as our enemies, can be expected to straighten out into a more surely predictable course...
...apparent inability to straighten out his star pitcher, Bill Voiselle, who be gan by winning eight straight and then lost six in a row, is a case in point. After being twice knocked out of the box, Voiselle was leading the Cardinals 3-to-1, with two out in the ninth, when a 53-minute rain interrupted proceedings. Instead of putting in a game-saver for the thoroughly cooled-out Voiselle, Ott left him in, and the Cardinals won the game. Afterwards, Ott fined Voiselle $500 for not wasting an out side pitch after getting a 2-0 count...
...straighten you out on the Ladies Doverdale. In TIME [May 7] you have a photograph of Audrey, wife of Baron Doverdale. But the story accompanying the picture is an account of the vigorous dissent of Leslie, Lady Doverdale to the rendering of the song, Lili Marlene, in her presence at a Manhattan hotel. The Dowager Lady Doverdale (Leslie) is the stepmother-in-law of Lady Doverdale (Audrey), who, as a matter of fact, has been in England throughout the war in charge of the records section of the R.A.F. Comforts Committee at the Air Ministry...
...UNRRA employe on the operating level in Washington wants to straighten out some tangled matter with his opposite number in the London office, he writes a letter. It moves through UNRRA channels-to the division chief, the chief of requirements and allocations, and finally to the appropriate deputy director. Having thus gathered several other signatures, it is ready to move out. The process is repeated in reverse in the London office, and if the recipient answers, the rigmarole begins all over again. Said one UNRRA employe last week: "By the time we get an answer through this jungle...