Word: checker
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...other side they filed up the gangways of waiting troop transports. As the troops went aboard, a checker barked out each soldier's surname; he answered by shouting his own first name...
Brightest spot at the Toy Fair was the game business. Less harried by shortages than the toy industry, the game industry is doing more business than ever before. It is riding an Army & Navy boom: practically every serviceman's kit includes a pack of cards, a checker board or a backgammon set, and the U.S. Army recently ordered 1,500,000 dice at one clip...
Battle Tactics. The best war games are foreign. In Tri-Tactics (which is available in limited quantities in the U.S.) the British have probably the best commercial war game. It combines naval, air and land forces in checker-like movements over a map, and was invented by a British games manufacturer, Harry A. Gibson, of H. P. Gibson & Sons...
...From a Navy hospital in the South Pacific came a story of the toughness of Marine Private Eugene Moore, 22, onetime checker in a San Francisco grocery, onetime guard on the Huron (S.D.) High School football team, who liked to bake chocolate cakes when he was at home...
...efficiency engineers, reorganized the company from basement to smokestack. He built up a glib-tongued sales staff, put zip into a faltering aviation-engine division, concentrated all operations in the Muskegon plant, slashed monthly operating expenses $75,000. Soon bigtime customers like Sears, Roebuck, J. I. Case and Checker Cab came back into the fold. In 1940, sales rose 50% to $10,908,000 and the company earned $612,000 v. the preceding year's $215,000 deficit...