Word: wrench
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Businessmen took a look at a joint Army-Navy-WPB letter last week and braced themselves for the final wrench to real regimentation...
...Detroit, another lean individualist who was also a mechanic thought he knew a good wrench man when he saw him. He could use another man at vast Willow...
Last week Henry Ford invited the wrench man to Detroit, lunched with him, pointed proudly at Willow Run, offered the onetime hero a "supervisory" job. Lindbergh said he must ask the War Department. In Washington Secretary Stimson nodded. Lindbergh begins work this week...
...members of San Juan's civilian-defense board, replaced them with Populares. Saying that civilian defense had bogged down, he put a friend of Muñoz Marin at the head of civilian defense in San Juan and its neighbor cities. Coalitionists retorted that Tugwell had thrown a wrench in the works, said: "He is harder to see than the Pope...
...dream in U.S. history. It multiplied astronomically impossible figures by five and hoped that each figure would show up as something hard, tangible, useful or deadly: a tank, a gun, a ship, a plane, a truck, a tent, a uniform, a mess kit, a blanket, a parachute, a monkey wrench, a lathe, a screw...