Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...figured that thousands who were unavailable for military service because of age, sex, physical defects, would still be available for much useful home-front work: carrying messages, patrol work, etc. The Army thought there might be something in the idea, assigned Major General John F. Curry to head newborn CAP...
...touring the U.S. like "a peevish cockney traveling without his breakfast"). Bigger fame came to the Plain Dealer when its "Commercial Editor," Charles Farrar Brown, started a humorous column signed "Artemus Ward." Editor Gray died at 48, torturously, of having an eye put out by his son's cap pistol...
...society is very near the life. So are the performances of young Croft and Miss Colbert. This first-rate melding of an understanding script (Tess Slesinger, Frank Davis, Allan Scott) with superior photography (George Barnes) and music (Alfred Newman) is a peacock feather in Director Henry King's cap...
...Mayor LaGuardia announced that he will enlist 90,000 licensed pilots, 90,000 student pilots, 100,000 ground workers to serve in a Civil Air Patrol for the war's duration. Under the command of Major General John F. Curry of the U.S. Army Air Corps, CAP will operate from 2,000 airports in the U.S. which are not used for military or commercial flights...
...Washington the percussion cap of war dynamited the last tag end of the guns-v.-butter argument. In any case, that argument had long since become only a differing about degree. One group had been insisting on all-out expansion; the other group contended that the present plan was big enough-bigger, in fact, than the U.S. could take. This second group had encouraged all-out production, had discouraged all-out planning as "hysterical overexpansion." The second group's bearishness on the potential productiveness of the U.S. was given a final trample at a hurry-up session of SPAB...