Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would also free 895 sleeping cars for the Army, to add to its present 4,055, which include 1,239 troop sleepers owned by Defense Plant Corp. It would leave traveling civilians with what was described as a "rock bottom" of 3,000 such cars. Another 1,200 troop sleepers were to be built by the end of the year, but none of these would be ready before September...
...below the prewar output. Italy, which once used to import 1,000,000 tons of coal a month, is now getting only 10% of that. Norway is out of fuel and Sweden, which managed to build up a stockpile of German coal during the war, will soon be scraping bottom...
Moreover, with consumer goods scarce, there is little incentive to work. The prolonged celebration of V-E day (in some places it lasted a week) cost France 300,000 tons of coal. Now, coal production is Tmly about half what it was in prewar years, far below rock-bottom needs...
With bell-bottom trousers and a coat of navy blue...
Last week Bell Bottom Trousers, revived as a song hit of World War II, placed first in U.S. sheet-music sales and fourth in radio performances. But the lyrics had been thoroughly scrubbed up. Veteran fathers, momentarily alarmed by the melody the bobby-soxers were singing, were quickly reassured. Songwriter Moe Jaffe's modernized maid, as coolly respectable as a Junior League Nurses' Aide, has the situation well in hand; her sailor is as wholesome as an Eagle Scout...