Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...striking design for the post-war car has already come from Manhattan's Raymond Loewy, who once called the egg the "functionally perfect shape, the symbol of progress." Abandoning the egg for some-thing closer to a motorboat, French-born Designer Loewy would fashion his car of light, unpainted alloys, plastics, nonreflecting glass. With a liquid-cooled engine in the rear, he would leave the present-day hood as a concession to popular taste, a storage space for tires, battery, air-conditioner. The undercarriage would be faired-in (streamlined). Doors and windows would operate by push button...
...Fogg where is treasured a secret as valuable as any the military might be keeping, they no longer like to discuss with outsiders the closer-to-home possibilities of the war. But war has come to The Fogg Art Museum, making itself felt in every department and function. Any conception the undergraduate might have of the "ivory tower" on Quincy Street would be shattered if he knew of the realistic defense measures taken by Director Edward W. Forbes and his staff...
...expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists took over...
Tuesday and Wednesday from dawn to dark they hammered at the Jap. He kept coming, and the harder he came the easier it was to get at him, for he was coming closer & closer to U.S. land bases. Thursday they hit him harder than ever, and tired-eyed pilots reported to their operations officers that the enemy had been badly hurt...
...Past. From friend of Russia, to membership in the Anglo-French-Turkish Pact, to a "friendship" pact with Germany and now to closer cooperation with the U.S., the status of Turkey had changed as the warring nations showed strength or weakness. "We are convinced," said Foreign Minister Saracoglu, "that our neutrality is useful to all the belligerents." The danger always lay in Turkey's geographical position. Hitler must either conquer or by-pass her on any thirsty march toward the oil fields of the Russian Caucasus or of Iraq and Iran...