Word: baton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engineering and construction monument. It will tunnel 1,400 miles under eight states and 20 rivers and surmount the rolling Alleghenies. Now building in the South is an extension of Big Inch's smaller (maximum 11 inch) brother, the Plantation Line, which by June will stretch from Baton Rouge to Richmond. Oilmen figure that still another such line would be needed if both war and civilian needs are to be fulfilled...
Stocky, shrewd Xavier Cugat's secret lies not so much in the importing as in the processing of his hip-cajoling products. A master showman, on state occasions he waves a baton three times as long as Toscanini's. He dresses his men in lustrous Cuban silks and colored lights. His music, tinted to the romantic debutante's taste, features Latin violins rather than brasses. It contains just enough subtle tropical pounding and gourd rattling to give it pith, not enough to ruffle the polite suavity of an expensive hot spot. Four weeks ago Cugat added...
With two big butadiene plants almost completed (at Baton Rouge and at Charleston, W.Va.), 22 others to be ready for production between now and next July, synthetic rubber begins to look real in the U.S. Last week two American Chemical Society journals celebrated its birth by a presentation of the technical factors involved in the new industry. Forgotten now are the pains of the prenatal period (TIME, July 20) and the desperate remedies of the Baruch Committee (TIME, Sept. 21). More than a million tons of good synthetic rubber are in sight...
...Kyser is a pretty fair orchestra leader. Harold Lloyd was a very funny comedian. But when Kyser drops his baton and tries to gallop along in Loyd's footsteps, he's not only a horribly un-funny comedian, but an anemic imitation of an orchestra leader as well...
This was their "Food for Freedom Thanksgiving." Walthall County has sent 750 boys to the armed forces and scores of men to war jobs in Mobile, New Orleans, Baton Rouge. But the farmers who stayed behind pitched in and got barn-bursting harvests: 23% more cotton than last year, 146% more hay, 110% more eggs, 619% more truck crops...