Word: chips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...character" of the market. For more than a year every boomlet has been touched off by heavy buying in $1 to $5 cat-&-dog stocks, fourth-grade foreign bonds, etc. (TIME, March 15, 1943 el seq.). This time the dogs were still in demand, but there was heavy blue-chip investing. Du Pont, up six and a half points to 148, hit a new 1944 high; General Motors, A.T.&T. and Johns-Manville ticked off new highs, and a lot more long-neglected topnotchers did almost as well...
Sometimes a recruit being examined by psychiatrists is truculent, has a chip-on-the-shoulder attitude. Navy psychiatrists have learned by experience that such a recruit is not necessarily a psychiatric personality unfit for service; he may be a perfectly normal guy from Brooklyn. Says the New York State Journal of Medicine, the Navy doctors have christened this "harmless social pattern" the "Brooklyn syndrome [set of symptoms...
...These pillboxes seemed immune to American artillery. . . . Some must have suffered direct hits but apparently the impact of the bursts did nothing but chip off hunks of stone. Then the Americans tried shells with delayed fuses designed to penetrate before exploding. Infantrymen armed with bazookas fired rockets at the pillboxes. But the rocket missiles bounced off ineffectively...
They Satisfy. Keen to cries for news of sport at home, the War Department each week buys 41,000 copies for overseas. Chesterfield cigarets distributes another 50,000 at camps in the U.S., and the American and National Leagues (and others) chip in for 58,000 more...
...Less elastic and flexible than natural rubber, synthetic treads crack, chip and separate more quickly, have poor resistance to heat. In truck tires, even when mixed with 20-30% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber heats up badly, has a record of frequent blowouts...