Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finland's wartime anti-Russian leaders are in jail, or otherwise out of action, can still be annoying. Recently the Finns asked Moscow to let them run five trains a day in each direction across the Porkkala Peninsula (leased to Russia for 50 years as a naval base), which would cut three hours from the time required by the roundabout route to the north. Moscow agreed-if the trains were sealed, if they could be inspected by Red officials on entering and leaving the leased area, and if the Finns paid $50 (U.S.) for each train. The Finns installed...
That no imaginative appeal for new support is made constitutes a weakness all the greater because the foremost requirement for an effective student organization is a broad base of participation. Interest at Harvard in NSO has been more spasmodic than widespread. A minor tempest arose over the question of whether or not NSO should be affiliated with the International Union of Students, formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits...
...Before dinner at Queens Seaplane Base on Long Island, Editor Elmer H. Holmes of the magazine Contact was elected president of the newly formed Aviation Suckers Society, an association of men who have lost money in aviation ventures. Holmes, who claimed to have dropped $600,000 in trying to operate a private airport, narrowly defeated Planemaker Howard Hughes (who lost millions) for the presidency. Reason: Hughes "still has a tremendous amount of money...
Burst of Power. A last-place club last year, the Giants began to slug this year for reasons that have eluded analysis even by themselves.** With extra-base hitting and little else, they pulled themselves up to a pennant-contending position. Their leading home-run hitter is 34-year-old First Baseman Johnny Mize, who has hammered out 36 homers. Right behind him this week were young Outfielder Willard Marshall with 29; Veteran Catcher Walker Cooper with 26; and Bobby Thomson, rookie outfielder who has hit 23. Infielder Bill Rigney, who hit only three homers all last year, also climbed...
...companies were accused of adding to their base prices-in lieu of actual freight, shipping and switching charges-an arbitrary amount, "automatically arrived at with mathematical precision" by a formula provided by the steel institute. Even though cheaper truck or water transportation might actually be used, the formula allegedly bases delivery prices on all-rail freight and assesses arbitrary "switching charges." The result, said FTC, is the same as if "all mills were under one ownership and control...