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The nation had been enraged by Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. It was also enraged over getting caught with its pants down. After it had cursed those "little yellow bastards," it demanded scapegoats at once. The Roberts Commission supplied them. Now, three years later, in a soberer mood...
The Squeeze. In Boston, Charles Polley bought three auctioned corsets, all different sizes, for $4.75, hoping they would fit either his wife, mother, mother-in-law, or sister.
Illinois. Senator Scott Lucas, a downstate New Dealer backed by Mayor Ed Kelly's machine, might squeeze through even if Illinois voted for Dewey. Opponent Richard Lyons, favorite of the Chicago Tribune and twice blessed by Tom Dewey, is splenetically anti-New Deal and isolationist.
A bulldozer shove started the old streetcar down the hill toward Aachen. The engineers, watching from the bleachers of the ridge, saw the squeeze play fail: the rocking trolley blew up before it reached the town. Maybe it shook up a few Nazi machine gunners. Well, they had another. The...
But from its birth FEA's history has been one of dictation, though necessarily so because of its war function. It has dictated to private traders when & where they may ship their goods; it buys and stockpiles the millions of tons of strategic raw materials needed by the United...