Word: letdowns
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...Americans, if we believe all the advertisements we read, have to take a vitamin pill or two every day to get through that little letdown we are said to have in the middle of the afternoon, and most of us are pretty well supplied with vitamins in our regular diet. But the Chinese haven't had enough vitamins for years and years, and they are more jittery and irritable and restless than ordinarily, and they are tired. They are anemic, they are full of parasites and malaria and tuberculosis and dysentery. They have got to have adequate food...
...blackout" was officially ended in Britain* last week. But for most Britons the lightup was a letdown. Instead of full illumination, they got only an installment. Darkened cities along the coast will remain dark. And streets will not be fully lit till July...
...Allegiance, then learned that it had wasted its breath. All over the U.S., War Manpower Commission offices got calls from war workers, asking if they could quit their jobs now. Coming within two hours of each other, the two flashes gave the U.S. its biggest artificial pickup and letdown since the A.P.'s phony D-day flash last June...
Then correspondents were called to Argentina's Foreign Ministry. They all thought: "This is it!" Ameghino's announcement of a mere protest to Germany over seven unimportant Argentine diplomats was a letdown. Cracked one reporter, remembering that the Red Army is 31 miles from Berlin: "Ameghino will get his reply from the Russians...
Hailed by Secretaries Stimson and Forrestal as "of supreme importance," a new Research Board for National Security was announced this week. Its purpose: to see that there is no letdown in research on new military weapons between the disbanding of OSRD at war's end and the creation by Congress of a permanent agency to continue...