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...first burst of criticism came from special-interest groups, but many of their gripes were legitimate. Foreign automakers, for example, were frightened that their cars might not qualify for the rebates on fuel-efficient vehicles. Actually, they probably wilL; but rebates on foreign cars are certain to provoke the wrath of the United Auto Workers...
...Eternal Wrath. In January 1939, Hitler told the Czech Foreign Minister: "We are going to destroy the Jews ... The day of reckoning has come." To Irving, macabre questions, absurd precisions of semantics are involved. If Hitler speaks a few days later of "the annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe," what does he really mean? Transportation out of Europe? Or mass murder...
...personal opposition was one hindrance to efficiency that Gorski sought to eliminate. He gained a reputation as "a dangerous man to cross," as one officer put it. Most officers refused to speak to reporters during Gorski's tenure, for fear their remarks might bring down upon them the considerable wrath of the police office. One union negotiator cited "a complete lack of trust in the chief of police" as one of the major stumbling blocks to reaching agreement on a contract. Gorski's organizational changes, he said, had destroyed morale in the force--and the "morale issue" has since become...
...Corps of Engineers. While also serving as a regular branch of the Army, the engineers have constructed 4,000 projects during the past 152 years. They tamed the Mississippi River, dug the Panama Canal, erected the secret installations that produced the atomic bomb, and along the way earned the wrath of legions of environmentalists...
...Georgian who was one of Hollywood's most versatile and highly paid screenwriters and producers; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. After stints as a newspaperman and a humorist for the Saturday Evening Post, Johnson wrote nearly 100 screenplays in 35 years, including such classics as The Grapes of Wrath, Tobacco Road, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The Three Faces of Eve. A wisecracker, he quipped after two divorces: "I always insist on custody of the mother...