Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pantelleria lies smack in the middle of the Sicilian Channel. It is about half the size of Malta and has a simmering volcano at its center. Its airfield is reported to be connected by tunnel with a small underground hangar. The harbor can be used as a submarine base. The whole island is strongly fortified...
...Fourth Term movement got two pats and one smack last week. Endorse ments came from...
Republicans got in the smack, and it was a beauty, reminding bystanders of nothing less than the 1932-1936 Democratic efforts of wily Charley Michelson, the Old Master, who had a knack of making the Republicans look like stumblebums. Replying to Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker's suggestion that the 1944 campaign be held late, G.O.P. Chairman Harrison Spangler wrote: "We are willing to accept your plan for a short campaign ... if you can and will give assurance that Mr. Roosevelt does not have the ambition for and will not accept nomination for a fourth term. ... If you find...
Policy and Attitude. The report plowed smack into renegotiation's weak est point, the same one war contractors have stewed over for ten months: inconsistency. The Committee added that Army administration (75% of all contracts) "has been unnecessarily cumbersome" be cause military men insisted on running a civilian show...
Another trouble: meat price ceilings are in the wrong places and at the wrong levels. All retail meat prices are pegged at the March 1942 level, but livestock prices (exception: hogs) are as free as a steer on the range. Inevitable result: a record wartime demand pushed livestock prices smack against retail meat ceilings, squeezed profit margins so thin many a jobber and packer was temporarily forced out of the market...