Word: shake-up
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Said one elder statesman in Washington last week: "When the Japs land in San Francisco, there will be a real shake-up." Meanwhile the war effort pooped and boggled along. Washington was gloomy over defeats in the field, and wretched over its own confusion. The press was angry. Things that happened...
...began to be realized in London last week that the Churchill Government has mishandled affairs in the Orient. The Prime Minister himself knows little of the subject except what he learned as an enthusiastic poloist in a Punjab regiment in Kipling's India. A Cabinet shake-up was demanded...
Whatever the reason, Frank Knox cautioned against speculation, ruled out any Pacific shake-up until a complete investigation is made. To the U.S., he spoke optimistically. To the Japanese, he issued a taunting challenge...
...took Damon's production shake-up to reawaken interest in Republic. Its prize plane, the high-flying Thunderbolt (P-47) had already won it a plump Army order (total: $56,500,000, some of which was ticketed for P-43s). But last week not a single Thunderbolt (except the "mock-up") had yet been delivered. Few weeks ago Major General "Hap" Arnold, Air Forces chief, dropped in at the Farmingdale, L.I. plant. He was so impressed by what he saw that the Army more than doubled Republic's backlog (to around...
Jarvis Catoe had been a one-man crime wave. He had caused a police shake-up in Washington and a Congressional investigation. That was after he murdered Jessie Elizabeth Strieff, a Government clerk. Jarvis gently told the police about that...