Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lehut is 43, small, blonde and shapely. She lives and is politically active, to put it mildly, in the grimy suburb of La Courneuve (voting strength: about 8,000) in Paris' "Red Belt." Ordinarily the town politics of La Courneuve are not big news. But last week Renée Lehut made the transatlantic cables by doing something that millions of women do every day. She changed her mind...
Elsewhere in Texas, John Nance Garner unbuckled his belt and took it easy by playing piggyback with great-grandson John Garner Curry, 2½ (see cut). The ex-Vice President was looking no farther ahead than his 70th birthday, next fortnight...
...Newell (though glad to encourage his oil-company backers) was more excited about the theoretical aspects of his discovery. Rarely had paleontologists found a marine fauna that was practically identical on both sides of the equator. Obviously, he speculated, there was no tropical belt of warm water in those days to check the spread of temperate sea life...
...began a steady climb. Puzzled, Pilot Beck adjusted trim tabs on the plane's control surfaces to bring the nose down. Then, still undetected, Sisto released the gust lock. The plane immediately went into an outside loop. Both Sisto and Beck, neither of whom had fastened his safety belt, were thrown from their seats. Two things saved the plane. Sisto struck buttons which feathered the prp-pellors of three engines. Copilot Melvin Logan, who was securely belted in, was able to roll the ship right side up, a bare 300 to 400 feet from the ground...
...first week. From the north Texas and Oklahoma wheat plains came disturbing news: planting was far behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were no critical spots yet, but if the next week or ten days brought no rain, there might be. The rich wheat belt waited anxiously, almost as anxiously as the world's hungry people waited for U.S. grain...