Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased 66%. The shortage, said Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, might last for three years. Most oilmen agreed...
This week, Cap Krug gave his estimate of the cost: $9 billion. Krug estimated that the job would take five to ten years. Oilmen thought Krug was trying to bite off too much. The technology of making synthetic oil was improving so rapidly that such big plants might well be obsolete before they were in production. Know-how had already reached the point where gasoline from natural gas could compete with gasoline from crude...
...triumphal tour of the nation, the Senator does practically everything an unwilling aspirant can do, except milk a cow. In Virginia he uses a mushmouf accent; in Texas he lines it with rawhide. In a union hall, wearing a miner's cap, he shouts for an eight-day wage, a two-day week; at a discreet banquet for bankers, he whispers for a two-day wage, an eight-day week. Elsewhere, discussing the problems of inflation and deflation, he takes his stand fearlessly, without compromise, "For Flation." He also picks up an honorary Ph.D. from the Edgar L. Eubanks...
...Unrecognized Watcher. Togliatti, who likes to cap an Assembly debate with an obscure quotation from anything including the Bible and Pinocchio, that night debated happily such revolutionary questions as the use of the gerund as a participle, the correct version of lines from a 16th Century Italian poet, the corruption of the Italian language by certain "francesismi" (Gallicisms). Behind his steel-rimmed glasses his brown eyes sparkled merrily as he told how he had watched 30,000 Communist-led partisans give the Eternal City a mighty show of force...
...little crowd gathered-mostly students in odds & ends of G.I. clothing. A young man with a red face, an Army combat jacket and a G.I. wool cap climbed out of an excavation across the street. "What's happening, Mac?" he asked. I told him they were going to unveil a plaque marking the approximate spot where the atom bomb started five years ago this afternoon. "They ain't makin' no bombs there now, are they?" he asked. I told him I didn't think so. He said: "Wadda ya know" and went back down...