Word: war
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aware that abjections may be made to awarding a prize to a man situated as is Mr. Pound." Mr. Pound at that moment was 1) in an insane asylum and 2) under indictment for high treason against the U.S. for serving Mussolini as an anti-Semitic propagandist in World War II. In addition, there were many who thought that the poetry in his prizewinning Pisan Cantos was not worth a damn, or an award either...
Because of a flagrant violation of war food orders-a little matter of exceeding their quota of rationed molasses by 771,000 gallons in a delivery to the Pepsi-Cola Co.-the Allied company had been denied further supplies. According to testimony heard last week before a Senate subcommittee, General Vaughan had hit on a helpful solution. He called up a young Department of Agriculture administrator named Herbert C. Hathorn and suggested that the whole thing could be fixed nicely by simply giving the company a new allocation of from 500,000 to 1,000,000 gallons...
After listening to the squawks of World War II civilian-sailors for four long years, the Navy authorized the first basic change in the bluejacket's uniform since 1817. It ruled that in 1952 the pants of dress blues will be equipped with full-size pockets for the first time and that the 13 button-drop front (an incongruous symbol of the first 13 colonies, according to tradition) will be replaced by a zippered...
...British economic crisis, which had been building up ominously for months, was no longer a subject in the sedate preserve of economists and statesmen. Britain was in a worse position than at any time since war's end, and by last week every plain newspaper reader in Britain and the U.S. knew it, and knew more details than he had ever known before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker...
Before the U.S. press had got very far, the British hit the ceiling. War Secretary Emanuel Shinwell, who like most other Labor leaders has been free in his denunciation of free-enterprise capitalism as practiced in the U.S., last week cried petulantly: "Our magnificent efforts in the past are being overlooked." Cried the tabloid pro-Laborite Sunday Pictorial: "It is fair to say that the British are riled; in fact, we are damned annoyed...We British are tired of Yankee insults...