Word: etc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also announced that he would set up an advisory body, composed of military and civilian scientific experts, to be known as the Weapons System Evaluation Group. This group would provide "unprejudiced and independent" evaluation of new weapons (e.g., improved atom bombs, rockets, etc.) and would advise on which service could best use them. Thus, it could get at the heart of the matter. It could, by defining the use of weapons, define the real functions of the various services. It could then greatly influence a decision, for instance, whether the Navy should go on building bigger aircraft carriers. It could...
Smooching, Etc. In the '30s, a popular Tin Pan Alley song once told the world what happens "when it's dark on Observatory Hill." It still gets dark there, but most of the sex at Madison since the war has been domesticated. One out of every five students is married (prewar: one in 21). In the G.I. generation, sex doesn't even seem to be a favorite bull-session topic...
...recession? The Administration, along with many businessmen, could not agree on a forecast. Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer thought the danger was inflation. In a report to President Truman, Sawyer asked that the new Congress extend the waning life of all present business controls (on exports & imports, scarce metals, etc.). He clearly indicated that he would also like some potentially stiffer "standby" controls...
...consumers, most of them were welcome. Food, which had risen so much higher than anything else, was finally dropping enough to be a help to budget-bound housewives; meat, butter, eggs, etc. were all down. Dun & Bradstreet's weekly index of the wholesale food price (per pound) of 31 items slid to $6.33, lowest in 17 months, and 14% below July's alltime high...
...buyers' market in oil, textiles, washing machines, etc. was not a blessing to all. It had brought surpluses and layoffs in many an industry. U.S. employment in November had dropped below 60 million (to 59.8 million) for the first time in five months. Part of the drop was due to greater industrial efficiency. Since the first of the year, Western Electric Co. alone had cut back its work force by 25,000. In Connecticut, layoffs were so widespread that the Stamford-Greenwich Manufacturers' Council called a conference to discuss means of reducing them...