Word: shake-up
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...same day Ralph Assheton, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Supply, told the House of Commons that output of war material had jumped 40% in the last six months. But this report and the shake-up in the Ministry of Production failed to silence the Government's critics. Leftist M.P. Emanuel Shinwell, who calls the Cabinet "Winston's Beauty Parlor," cried: "If the Government believes invasion may come soon, it is useless to . . . draw up elaborate schemes for a more or less remote future...
Editor Hibbs's Country Gentleman has been considerably more pro-Administration than the Post. But the disagreement which produced the shake-up doubtless concerned a great deal more than the editorial page, for fiction is still the main stay of the Post's editorial appeal. And Editor Stout, who got his training under the late, great editor, George Lorimer, was generally credited with doing a first-rate...
...clue to the shake-up may lie in the fact that in the first eleven issues of 1942 the number of pages of Post advertising has averaged 20.2% below the same eleven issues of last year, with the decline apparently growing. A decline of 20% in Post advertising would mean a loss of about 575 pages in a year, or between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 in revenue. (All Curtis publications made only $1,628,386 in the first nine months of 1941.) When a magazine starts taking that kind of loss, somebody has to take...
...Navy's high command cleared its decks for offensive action this week. A shake-up in the top drawer put an airman alone at the top. It also finally put the U.S. fleets under the command of the Navy's toughest "sundowners" and one of the most offensive-minded officers...
...Navy's shake-up gave "Rey" King an operations staff to cut him free of detail. This staff will be headed by Rear Admiral Frederick Joseph Home, a naval aviator, a policy maker. And the gold aviator's wings on his blue blouse will not be the only ones around that table...