Word: waits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wait and Work. For the next two days, Harold Stassen followed the same routine, working and waiting all day and half the night. He signed and vetoed bills, suggested a tax compromise to top Senators and Representatives. Into his office trooped a group of C.I.O. leaders to demand a veto of certain labor bills (outlawing jurisdictional strikes, calling for union elections at least every four years). Harold Stassen looked at the bills, said he did not think they would hamper "good unions." The conference broke up amicably; said a departing C.I.O. leader: "Sink a few Japs for us, Governor...
While U.S. and British newsmen were roundly criticizing U.S. military aircraft in the first eight months after Pearl Harbor (on the basis of their spotty combat showing) most U.S. air soldiers had a stock and sour reply: "Wait and see." Only constitutionally cheerful "Hap" Arnold, chief of the Air Forces, had much good to say about U.S. warplanes in public. This week he had his inning...
...competition for the available appointments. So will schools for officers in England and Australia (schools in two South Pacific islands have been abandoned). The rate of attrition among officers-due to battle casualties and health-has been high, especially in the South Sea jungles, where Jap snipers lie in wait for the man who issues commands...
...Japanese planes had attacked a convoy approaching or standing off Guadalcanal. They had sunk a destroyer, a New Zealand corvette, a tanker, damaged a "fuel-oil boat." The U.S. victory had lasted one day. The Navy Department and the news-hungry press could have afforded to wait for the whole story in one accurate installment...
Formation of the new national council joining West and East Coast together has had to wait till the right manager could be found. This week the producers thought they had him: greying, 38-year-old Frank F. Russell, who went from Yale ('26) to Wall Street, in 1939 became president of National Aviation Corp., a low-earning, almost static investment trust. His big job since the war has been to act as liaison man and trouble shooter for Bell, Lockheed and half a dozen other concerns of which he is director. His assets: geniality, toughness, a precise, realistic knowledge...