Word: chute
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...wrote the lead piece on history's "most unnecessary, most senseless and deadliest" war. The A.P.'s Hal Boyle reported the Russian A-bombing of Washington (which had "destroyed the heart of the city"), Edward R. Murrow, the A-bombing of Moscow. Lowell Thomas watched U.N. paratroopers "chute into the Urals" and destroy the Soviets' A-bomb stockpile, and Hanson Baldwin charted the three-year war's strategy. In his usual slick style, Philip Wylie wrote the love story of a Russian girl, who had been sterilized by a bomb burst, and a U.S. major. Arthur...
Smart Boy. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, who always signs himself plain Joe McCarthy these days, was born on a farm in Grand Chute, a few miles north of Appleton. One of seven children, he quit school early, parlayed 50 chickens into a flock of 10,000, but lost nearly all of them one winter when he came down with pneumonia and turned over his flock to some friends. At 18 he wangled a job as manager of a grocery store in nearby Manawa...
...seems the Stoughton men never liked to pay for phone calls. For several moths they had been spinning pennies into coin slots but finally the phone company caught on and put in a spinproof chute. This didn't work either, as the ingenious men of '53 made over a hundred more penny phone calls before the company pulled the instrument from the wall. One national magazine had a few choice things to say about the incident...
...Stoughton men were annoyed last week when newspapers said they hit the phone with a baseball bat--'It was always a brick." After the spinproof chute was installed "one forehanded genius was practicing spinning nickels into the quarter slot in preparation for a call to his home in Texas...
Aloft, he stripped down to a costume consisting of long red underwear, a blue Mae West and a white helmet, got into his chute-and after heaving out a dummy to watch the direction of its fall-cheerily stepped into space. He floated grandly down, narrowly missed a clump of trees, and splashed into the water where he calmly floated on his back waiting to be picked up. Cried he as a speedboat rescued him: "I feel like...