Word: alertes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nomenology. In The Bronx, Alexander Himler, weary of cracks about the Hangman of the Gestapo, had his name legally changed to Alexander Hamilton. In Baltimore, the Rossa McGradys named their new son Alert because he was born during one. With the Georgia Department of Health was filed a birth certificate for Extra White...
...scientific tests, the system, which is merchandised as Three Dimensional Seeing, consists of painting the central mass of a machine a special grey which Du Pont calls "Horizon," then picking out the working surfaces in "spotlight buff" or "spotlight green." The idea is to increase the worker's alert observance of what he is doing by making it effortless for him to see, in soft-not glaring-contrast, the object he is working on and the cutting or shaping parts of the machine...
...Marines had fought well. TIME Editor John Hersey, who left Guadalcanal last week, wrote: "The men have spent themselves as if they were as worthless as the Jap occupation currency they found on the beachhead. It is impossible to say who deserves most credit. Certainly the command has been alert and tough. It has anticipated every Jap stroke, including the present push...
...Popular dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war up till now. This is as broad as it is deep-not so much the lack of alert at Pearl Harbor or the bitterness of Bataan, or even the fire-gutted Normandie, as the flood of officially inspired uncertainty on production, on the draft, on rubber, on gas rationing, on the performance of U.S. planes; as the spectacle of bickering between Army & Navy; as production tie-ups due to inadequate Government planning; as manpower wastage due to lack of Government policy; as delay in inflation control. (Wrote James Loeb Jr., secretary...
...blonde. They tell each other they would give a cool million dollars, perhaps a billion, to get back home "just for a week or two." But they stick hard to the nerve-racking duty of waiting, just waiting. They are not likely to be caught by surprise. They are alert and healthy and they would be happy if the Japs would only come, or something would happen...