Word: soberness
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...back as last October the Department of Agriculture had warned of the present storage shortage; few heeded until Pearl Harbor made sober farmers realize that foreign markets were gone. Then it was too late for many to get nails, tin and lumber for sheds. Commodity Credit Corp., with WPB priorities, let contracts for 60,000 prefabricated wood and metal bins to be sold to farmers, enough to hold 110,000,000 bushels of wheat. But the contractors fell behind schedule...
This time, the chief responsibility for confusion was clear: the fault lay with the U.S. press, about whose handling of the week's rubber news the kindest comment would be that the news itself came too fast for predeadline digestion. Even the sober New York Times headlined a sober report to Congress by Jesse Jones: AMPLE NEW RUBBER IN '43 SAYS JONES...
...could talk about these three strategic materials as one integrated production and financial problem. Butylene fell to Rubber Reserve Corp.; toluene (for TNT) to Army Ordnance; aviation gasoline to the Office of the Petroleum Coordinator. Something at last began to happen about six weeks ago. Its foundation was the sober recognition on everyone's part that 1) the rubber situation was so dire as to threaten the war effort itself; 2) the raw materials situation as a whole (particularly in steel) was so dire that the rubber program had to be frozen, and on a strictly string-saving basis...
...London the sober Economist admitted that "political considerations, not technical convenience [U.S. & British Lend-Lease materials] will decide how the Moslem world reacts to a British defeat. It is useless to pretend that the political omens are very favorable...
...justice from the people who rule in the United States. 'Look at America,' Japan is saying to millions of listening ears, 'Will white Americans give you equality?' For once, Japanese propaganda is more than propaganda. Lies can be laughed off, but truth is a sober thing. Who can blame our colored allies if they doubt our intentions for true democracy for them...