Word: blowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador Winant stepped out of the White House last week as gingerly as a man who feels he is loaded with dynamite and may blow up if anybody bumps into him. He had reason to step warily. Before he left England, the British Government had shown him a confidence that few Ambassadors have received. It turned over to Gil Winant an account of British war plans and British war experiences, as well as analyses of Britain's shortcomings, tragic mistakes, and lessons learned, at a frightful cost, during...
Vichy denied there were any German troops in Syria. Marshal Henri Philippe Petain bleated foul blow and declared the hopes of France were with the defending forces...
...production, Alcoa's once-firm grip on the U.S. aluminum supply will be further weakened at two points: the Hall process will have its first real rival, and another corporation will have joined Reynolds Metals and the U.S. Government in competing with Alcoa. This must come as a blow to 0PM Economist Grenville Ross Holden, who has fought aluminum expansion plans (unless they were Alcoa's) all along the line. Young Holden, who left Eastman Kodak to handle aluminum and magnesium matters for OPM, admitted to the Truman Committee last month (TIME, May 26) that...
Oilmen, already harried by a shortage of tankers, had another blow last week. Their favorite enemy, Harold L. Ickes, already Federal Oil Administrator, became Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense. The man they had damned as "imbued with an inordinate ambition ... to dictate the course of the industry" got the power to do just that. Cried a Tulsa pessimist: "Ickes is captain of our souls. My day is absolutely ruined...
...proposed measure, which allows the owners to maintain their financial policy and only takes over the management end, appears suspiciously like a blow aimed directly at organized labor and not like an effort to bring a quick settlement to the strike. The President seems determined to us his newly won emergency powers of force to restore production. If so, he might better bring his influence to bear on N. A. A.'s prosperous owners to concede the seventy-five cent minimum wage asked by the Union than order his Army to squash the picket line. Such a move would...