Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing that riles me is that the 16 men left are the most experienced, highest rated, most capable, and most deserving, yet I have to hold them as "military necessities" because it takes trained machinists, electricians, radiomen, etc. to run these complicated little vessels, not raw draftees out of boot camp. It would be all right if the infernal politicians and radio broadcasters would cease yelping about demobilization and keep off the air and refrain from keeping the men all stirred...
...Stafford Cripps blueprinted another phase of Labor's plan. Tripartite committees, with management, labor and public members, will shape the policies by which British industries will live in home and world markets. Already, the Board of Trade president crowed, such groups are getting to work in the boot and shoe, hosiery, furniture, pottery and cotton industries...
There the President made a tour of the town, dropped in to visit relatives of Reconversion Boss John W. Snyder, who was with him. Then there was a 25-mile drive through the swampy cotton lands to Caruthersville (pop. 6,612), in the southeast "boot" of Missouri. When the President arrived at the Majestic Hotel's packed lobby, his face showed deep lines of weariness...
There is blood about to be spilled, so please enlighten us, for sake of some threatened friendships and some folding green stuff to boot. Could it be Penna., Mo., Va., Conn., Calif., or even La., we dunno...
Missouri-born Brigadier General Harry Vaughan, military aide to President Truman, is a large, uninhibited man, a veteran at draw poker. Genial and democratic to boot, Reserve Officer Vaughan is neither a finicky nor a formal dresser: in the White House he often does not bother to put on a blouse or cinch up his necktie...