Word: digs
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Said he: "Wendell Willkie will presumably go out here with a spade and dig up Bonneville and Grand Coulee. . . . The United States Government has $270,000,000 invested in Bonneville and Grand Coulee and I have more conception of the value that that investment represents than all the New Deal crew put together and piled up double...
...upped its rate of increase: Washington, D. C., with its swelling Government employe lists. Many cities showed an actual decrease: Philadelphia, Newark, N. J., Boston, Cleveland, San Francisco. Reasons for this urban "flattening out": the depression; a renascence of the old-fashioned U. S. passion to own a home, dig in the earth; the migration of city workers to the suburbs...
...Reichsführer being hit on the head by a bag labeled ?, with the caption: "Make Sure You Pound Adolf." H. Rotstein, 13, used businesslike symbolism: a ?shaped snake around a swastika, captioned "It Strangles Your Enemy." Most publicized poster was 13-year-old Mary Saunders'-a woman digging in her sleeping husband's trousers, with the slogan "Dig For Victory." Ronald Sharp, 13, who filled his poster with planes, ships, soldiers, drew a Churchill-like man with finger pointed at the onlooker-reminiscent of a 1914 Kitchener poster, "Your Country Needs...
...upping to $3,259,000,000 the funds voted or requested so far this year for the U. S. Navy. This respectable sum was only a down payment. Before the Navy which the U. S. now has on order can be completed, equipped and manned, Congress will have to dig up at least $7,000,000,000 more...
...rarely enters into written agreements with his talent. Performers are bound by only one stipulation: they cannot work for another station while employed by XEW. With sponsors, Don Emilio is similarly gracious. They can drop their shows whenever they want to so long as they give him time to dig up a fill-in program. Prohibited at the moment by terrific costs (because of the power needed) from organizing a Mexican network, Don Emilio hopes that within two or three years he will be able to start stringing his own and other Mexican stations together. Already his XEW has contracts...