Word: waited
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Since the priorities system has greatly curtailed their activities and earnings, a large number [of traveling salesmen and sales managers] have tried to get commissions rather than wait for the draft because of dependents and obligations. Most of these men have made lots of money in civilian life and $21 a month would drastically reduce their standard of life and they would not be able to return to it easily when the war is over. . . . Salesmen as a rule have a good education, are easily able to handle the public and their customers, are especially well versed in current affairs...
What the missionaries had learned had not penetrated in Washington's bureaucracy. On the red-taped road someone would decide that a shipment of pursuit ships was more useful in the U.S.; someone would decide that a shipment of machine tools could wait a month. Actual shipments were barely started when came Pearl Harbor; then the Army & Navy cut them off entirely for a while. In February the U.S. was 50% behind on its great promise...
...Problems. Many problems fogged the air around Litvinoff's desk. Russian generals, going over Lend-Lease specifications, wondered why a big rich country could not send more aid, Why it had to wait for production lines to start moving. Members of the Russian mission, remembering how long and how thoroughly their own country had been stripped down for war, blinked at U.S. shop windows still full of metal automobile gadgets...
...Germany's war on Russia, at least until the first big 1942 returns were in. Or perhaps Hitler thought Japan had already gone far enough and pointedly left Japan's Ambassador out of The Big Talk. As to that, the world outside Castle Fuschl would have to wait...
...followed by Lucille and Eddie, singers, and then the biggest wait of the evening. First Budge Alcorn entertained, then Filley came on again with more piano, including the beautiful "Body and Soul." When he stopped, the rioting started up again. Ice cream, of all things, started it when Joe Eldredge began throwing the bricks of cream to the hungry Yardlings...