Word: bores
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wartime governors, Saltonstall has benefited from bulging coffers and full employment. But even before Pearl Harbor he had begun a project which may be his major contribution in office: a planning board for a postwar revolution of Massachusetts' entire manufacturing economy. As an early bird measure, it bore the now strange title of a "post-defense" program. Its aim: to restore Massachusetts' once-privileged industrial position. Its board members knew that if New England insisted on standing "where she always stood," she would be standing still or going backward. Short-sighted Yankee businessmen had lost their factories...
...time-honored list of things which U.S. politicians may be counted upon to denounce relentlessly-the housefly, the common cold, the man-eating shark-Washington's Senator Homer Bone in 1937 added cancer. When he introduced a bill for a National Cancer Institute, it bore the sponsoring signatures of 94 Senators. (The other two hastened to add theirs before the bill came to a vote.) Last fortnight Missouri's Bennett Champ Clark hit on something which politicians almost as unanimously favor. He introduced a veterans' benefits bill, jointly sponsored by 80 other Senators. Last week, amid plaints...
...head of New Brunswick's Bay of Fundy, the tides average 35 ft. Twice a day a wall of roaring white water, called the "bore," rushes up the winding Petitcodiac River, then ebbs lazily back...
...definitely sunk an astounding total of 503 Jap ships (not counting 150 others in the "guesswork" category called "probably sunk or damaged"), an average of 4½ Jap ships for each of the 113 submarines that the U.S. had at the time of Pearl Harbor. As more U.S. submarines bore through to the Pacific, no Jap ship is safe from undersea attack, in harbor or at sea, alone or in convoy, near home or at the fringes of Japan's empire...
Bombs & Shells. There was no air opposition. When the bombers finished, the artillery took up the pounding, fired some 85,000 shells from guns ranging up to 240-mm. (9.4-in.) bore. The artillery barrage was heavier than the famous pounding that preceded El Alamein. Said Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, Mediterranean air commander...