Word: coating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peacetime use of the hot-metal gun was to coat baby shoes with bronze or silver (for keepsakes). Some wartime uses...
Cost to the Army: $1 per year per airline plus expenses. The Army will also buy outright an-other 75-plus transports, to be pushed into regular Army service as fast as a coat of Army paint can be slapped on. In these ships Army bigwigs and Washington officials will fly all over the world, with no stops for airline tickets, favored passengers, or other peacetime doodads. All such flying must be strictly war business...
...Edison's old friend Franklin Roosevelt thought he needed New Jersey's colorless Senator William Smathers re-elected this November (the Senator's only achievement is riding the New Deal coat tail) and knew he needed Hague's machine to turn the trick. Edison and his fight to clean up New Jersey politics must wait. Mr. Roosevelt's Justice Department took a look at Mr. Meaney and promptly pronounced him "superior" to the three other candidates...
...machinist's mate, second class, resigned as a lieutenant), and a wealth of aeronautical ideas. Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, the vice president and general manager, was also a Cornell man, a onetime Marine passionately interested in Army fighting planes-a man who couldn't work with his coat on. W. T. ("Bill") Schwendler, chief engineer, turned out to be one of the crack aeronautical engineers of the period...
Within three months or less there will be no more new metal ash trays, no metal clothes trees or coat hangers or curtain rods, no metal doormats, hand mirrors, hat racks, picture frames or shoe trees, no more metal wastebaskets or clothes hampers or percolators, mixers, whippers and juicers. There will be no more metal, in short, for a WPB list of 76 classes of adjuncts to easy living...