Word: belt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great U.S. wheat belt, farmers listen to "Stake" almost as anxiously as to the weather man. Last week Professor Elvin C. Stakman, famed University of Minnesota plant pathologist, gave them something to be anxious about. "No. 56," the dread wheat rust, is rising to epidemic proportions. Stake and his boys were making some laboratory progress against it; they were sure they would eventually master No. 56, as they had mastered many another disease. But the outbreak once more confirmed a Stakman theory: the news on the fungus front is always...
...your money rather than spend it. ... There will be termination [of war contracts], unemployment . . . take-home pay will fall because of the reduction in hours and overtime. You're going to wait for prices to come down . . . for new products. . . . Most important, the war economy didn't tighten your belt too uncomfortably. . . . You haven't been starved enough so you'll want to rush out madly and buy. People won't be letting go." In effect he dismisses the everyone-will-buy-a-helicopter kind of talk by implying that there won't be helicopters for sale, and if there...
...Butcher, peacetime CBS vice president, and his orderly, Sergeant "Micky" McKeogh, onetime bellboy at New York's Plaza Hotel, in an unpretentious eight-room cottage near headquarters. One room was full of gymnasium paraphernalia, which the general studiously avoided except upon rare occasions when he took an exasperated belt, in passing, out of the punching...
...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...
Last week he turned up at the fighting fronts in a light grey flannel bush coat, khaki drill breeches, polo boots, Sam Browne belt, and an ancient stern-visored guardsman's cap, which he has clung to for years: it has been rebuilt three times. Neither at Dunkirk nor anywhere since then has he bothered to wear a steel helmet...