Word: gist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Honeymoon's End. This statement by the U.S. Oil Boss was still freshly inked in the current issue of the American Magazine when the whole problem of what the U.S. should do about oil came sharply into the foreground. The gist of a special report on the all-important subject, made by Ickes' Foreign Operations Committee of 13 U.S. oil executives and two British representatives, leaked out, via the New York Times. Then Honest Harold released the full text, which he had not yet read. With a bang, the honeymoon between Ickes and the oilmen was over...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...
First he read a clipping from Eleanor Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. It was a story by dapper, opinionated William K. Hutchinson, chief of the Hearst-owned I.N.S. Washington bureau. His story's gist: 1) that "a group of influential White House advisers" was conspiring to kick General Marshall upstairs "to a glorified but powerless world command over Anglo-American forces"; 2) that the motive "is to use the Army's vast production program . . . as a political weapon in the 1944 Presidential campaign." As the President read he bore down jeeringly on the more purple key phrases...
...discussion lasted an hour and a half. At its end a Presidential directive went out to War, Navy, State Departments. Its gist: henceforth Elmer Davis will decide when, where & how all war news is to be released. The only exception: if any Department feels OWI is releasing any item of news too soon, thus endangering the national security, it can appeal to the President, who then will act as arbiter...
Last week all this talk caused the War Manpower Commission to do some tough, scary talking of its own. Gist of its talk: if necessary, the manpower problem may be solved by the wholesale removal of plants from the Pacific area. These were big-muscled words for often flabby WMC. And while few believed that such drastic measures would be necessary, or feasible, there was plenty of evidence that WMC is at last using its muscles to solve its No. 1 problem...