Word: basic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other serious troubles: strikes in supplying companies, shortages in basic metals-pig iron, sheet steel and especially in lead (G.M. had only enough lead for storage batteries to carry through October...
Recent centuries, Stewart concludes, have brought vast changes in Man's control of the world, but no basic change in Man. "The great palace of the modern world" has to be built from "the same old kind of bricks ... no stronger . . . no more adaptable or beautiful. . . . Arguments about the decline of the individual ... I do not take too seriously. . . . When I see some boys cruising in their patched-up jalopy, they seem just as much in harmony with their world as any . . . young savage creeping up on a quail with his throwing-stick...
...that they know too much about Alaska (Harold Ickes was there on his honeymoon, never went back). Alaska's 586,400 square miles are occupied by only 72,524 people, 32,458 of them tuberculosis-ridden natives. It is rich, but its riches do it little good; its basic industries, salmon fishing and canning and gold mining, are owned in absentia. It has more coal than Pennsylvania, endless miles of virgin timber, many waterpower sites, but they cannot be marketed...
...Everybody has a story to tell. If you get it the right way, the average man is more interesting than any celebrity. That's the big basic reason for the success of audience shows...
There is no satisfactory substitute for tin. It is a basic ingredient of tin cans, solder, bronze, collapsible tubes, foil, galvanized iron, a hundred other items. This week the U.S. took a big step toward fattening its thin stockpile of the metal...