Word: tiring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lyricist Frank Loesser's Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition! (inspired by a Navy Chaplain's historic remark as he manned an anti-aircraft gun at Pearl Harbor) had become so popular that the Office of War Information feared the public would tire of it prematurely. The OWI requested broadcasters to limit its performance to once every four hours instead of once every two. Sample stanzas...
Heroes Also Tire. Despite the great naval defeat at the start of the Solomons campaign (the midnight surprise sinking of the heavy cruisers Astoria, Quincy, Vincennes, revealed 65 days later), the Navy and the Marines recovered. Two serious threats, a sea attack in late August and a land assault on Guadalcanal in mid-September, were beaten back...
...time at all Akron's unemployment fell to 6,000 men, of whom fewer than 1,000 had any rubber manufacturing experience at all. To ease the pinch, manufacturers put women to work on barrage balloons, life rafts, similar items; Goodyear and Firestone established training schools for tire builders...
...digesting the report, going to Manhattan to meet Baruch for the first time, and laying out a campaign against rubber bumbling. His powers: i) to give orders for carrying out the rubber program to any appropriate government agencies; 2) to issue a nationwide order for gas rationing and tire-conserving speed limits; 3) to call on the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator and the Rubber Reserve Company for research and supervision of synthetic-rubber plant construction. He must work out a 100,000-ton increase in butadiene output within six months, build facilities for making 100 million gallons of alcohol...
Biggest challenge to OPA's new get-tough enforcement program is neither the tire bootlegger nor the gas-coupon clipper but the widespread evasion of controls on rent. OPA last week swung one of its hardest punches, ordered rents reduced and stabilized on Oct. 1 in 54 more defense-rental areas scattered across the whole country, bringing under federal rent control areas where a total of 50,000,000 people live. In 53 of these areas rents are cut back to March i levels; in the 54th (Chateau, Okla.) the ceiling is based on the preceding October...