Word: tipoffs
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...Hearst press, one story had Churchill trying to keep the U.S. out of war, and a John T. Flynn piece saying that Churchill and Roosevelt had conspired to get the U.S. in. Manhattan dailies could not agree whether the Jap codes gave us a nine-day tipoff on Pearl Harbor (Daily News), 15 days (Mirror), or six months (Times...
...different slang words were used. Examples: babe, bracelets, chee, crack pot, darn, dawgoned, diggity, flatfoot, framed, gal, gents, gorsh, heck, haywire, holy-mackerel, hyuh, janes, migosh, nope, nuts, O.K., phooie, scram, shux, tipoff...
...Tipoff: it has been predicted that, bad as Army & Navy supply has been, OPM is so much more hopeless that the gambit now is to forget OPM, strengthen the services with business talent. The board that he heads must now attack the job of leading some 50% of U.S. industry...
...Tipoff: the industry branches, which were one of the mainstays of Barney Baruch's organization in World War I, have been weak in this war, divided between Knudsen-Hillman and Leon Henderson. OPM took them all over last fall, since Pearl Harbor has intensified its efforts to make them a real policy bridge between Army & Navy and industry. Significantly Phil Reed is the policy head, not the production or sales genius...
...Tipoff: G.M. is going to war. Dick Grant was Productionman Bill Knudsen's opposite (sales) number at Chevrolet in the twenties, when G.M. revolutionized the motor industry by using sales forecasts to schedule production rather than vice versa. Such a man, while serving G.M.'s wartime interests, can also serve the U.S.'s by speeding up procedure. With orders like the $5 billions announced this week (see p. 61) pouring into Detroit, it will take a quick and skilful hand just to hold the funnel...