Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Being bombed or being invaded does not frighten the British half so much as the thought of being blockaded. Rising fears of this eventuality were made plain last week when the Admiralty admitted the loss of 182,848 tons in the fortnight ended Dec. 8, and Britain continued to cast about anxiously for additional tonnage, present and future...
Berlin's opinion of the importance of the war at sea was soon made plain. For months, hoping to avoid stirring up additional U. S. sympathy for Britain, German officialdom has spoken to and of the U. S. only in a low voice and in polite terms. Last week it changed its tactics, decided to see whether a threat would work. A Foreign Office spokesman warned: "The entire attention of the German Government is centred upon the American reaction to the Cross proposal. That proposal is nothing other than inciting America to commit a warlike act. I speak with...
...stadiums. The coloratura voice, which even musical dopes can tell is high-priced, accounts for part of her drawing power, but not all. Andre Kostelanetz is a competent stick-waver, and on records and the radio he plays, not symphonies and not jazz, but the kind of music plain people really like: his arrangements of "standard" pieces, Victor Herbert and such, beautifully done up in balanced brass, reed and string tones, as rich as a lobster Newburg well laced with sherry. In summer, the team of Pons & Kostelanetz earns $5,500 a night. The 300,000 people they have attracted...
Reason for this was plain. Despite the production boom, nothing Business really wanted had been achieved. Taxes, far from easing, were made tougher by an excess-profits tax and likely to grow more so. Government spending was multiplied; the 76th Congress appropriated more than $17 billions. Interest rates on capital continued to fall. The National Labor Relations Board underwent a personnel shakeup, but Wagner Act modification was less likely than ever. Government regulation in general, previously little more than a list of "Don'ts," began to turn into positive control. Every well-editorialized reason why Business should hold back...
...ordered: first a girl, then a boy. The Daily News's Sex Control Editor" was forthwith deluged with letters and phone calls, answered cautiously that he could give no specific instructions for human beings. Captain Patterson couldn't be sure that the Hamtons hadn't been plain lucky...