Word: upsets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started making corsets and brassieres 48 years ago, had smooth sailing except for batting down its reputation as a "heavy women's house" and finding girdle names that punsters could not twist into something nasty. It got into war work ten months ago when the elastic shortage mildly upset peacetime business and the Medical Corps was hunting for someone to make quantities of tourniquets, straps, tapes, etc. Then it picked up orders for 60,000 WAAC girdles (flesh-tan, 280 sq. in. of elastic, four 2½-in. garters), some 50,000 Army flare parachutes to boot...
...South Atlantic. Spy-busting Major Olinto Franca Almeida y Sa,* Police Chief of the State of Sao Paulo, said the Nazi plan was to invade by air last May. The plot was uncovered when the police intercepted a Nazi agent's message. Only the fact that Russia upset the German timetable, guessed the Major, prevented the plot from being carried...
...Broadway, opened its new season with a play telling why the Nazis were halted, a year ago, in their Moscow offensive. Whether historically true or false, Winter Soldiers by Playwright Dan James has a dramatic explanation : While Nazi reinforcements were being rushed to the Moscow front, the underground movement upset Hitler's timetable with daring sabotage...
...Town. Admiral Darlan broadcast the announcement that French West Africa and Dakar had come "freely under my orders." Dakar had been won at last and after a bloodless battle. Despite official fears that press comments less brutal than President Roosevelt's forthright reference to the renegade admiral might upset the apple cart, Darlan apparently was still acting in accord with General Eisenhower's plans...
...standing in the way of such economies is OPA's and Agriculture's unwillingness to offend anybody, to upset the arbitrary restrictions and shibboleths of distributors and union drivers-like those forbidding a driver to solicit customers who had not been his before a specified date, and requiring unions to enforce a particular retail price...