Word: unsnarling
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...faced Town Marshal Joe Peyton found his one-man job a nightmare, couldn't unsnarl the daily traffic jam that tied up the public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
Although the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement, by which Mexico, Canada, Cuba and the U. S. hope to unsnarl the untidy tangle of wave lengths in this continent, will probably not go into effect until late this year, Mexico is trying to straighten out its aerial relations with the U. S. Soon to go into effect is a U. S.-Mexican agreement to exchange four clear channels from Mexico for four clear channels from the U. S. Benefited by this agreement will be 90,000 set owners in the Federal District, more than half of the owners elsewhere in Mexico...
...Board of Trade, combined the Liberal fervor of a Gladstone with tireless practical energy, plus a modern grasp of economics. In 1930, when enormous shipping interests headed by the late Lord Kylsant and including the Royal Mail, faced scandal and collapse, Mr. Runciman stepped in to help unsnarl British shipping chaos by rapid, efficient reorganization...
Observers agree that the Reich will attempt to unsnarl her tangle by selling more abroad, particularly to Great Britain, but British financial interests, which stand to lose most on the Austrian loans, are unlikely to accept such a solution until the loans are settled. Britain holds an ax over the Reich because she can deduct German debts from the money Britons owe German exporters. Last week, the potent Association of British Chambers of Commerce urged that the exchange clearing bill, passed in 1934 but never implemented, be enforced. But as such a move would blight Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain...
...bombardment of telegrams demanding the release, rescue or ransoming of Chiang Kai-shek at any cost. It was the ultimate testimony that after centuries the Chinese people had at last found a Leader. It is too early to give credence to rumors that Banker Soong was obliged to unsnarl the kidnapping mistake with millions of dollars in bribes. The more popular, official version is that The Young Marshal Chang and the Communists were "greatly touched" by the contents of the Generalissimo's diary-which convinced them that he was not at heart pro Japanese. At all events the sequel...