Word: cod
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend . . . of ours got into a great deal of trouble several years back when he decided to pass up an opportunity to go to Yale and instead entered a certain educational institution in the home of the bean and the cod...
...road work for three-week stretches in louse-infested clothes, to permit studies which played a part in the development of DDT, the powder which saved bombed Naples from a typhus epidemic (TIME, Jan. 10, June 12, 1944). Five other C.O.s spent days on a life raft off Cape Cod, to determine, among other things, the effects of drinking sea water under shipwreck conditions...
...Hyannis, Mass., Hobart A. H. Cook, 33, discharged Navy flyer, leased a Lockheed Lodestar from the Government, sold $13,000 worth of stock, started Trans-Marine Airlines Inc. (New York to Cape Cod). At Hyannis, his wife drives the passengers into town. Last week, with customers standing in line to get reservations, Cook observed: "I don't want to become a big airline. I want to become a big seasonal operator...
...looks like a gangling Harold Lloyd, even to the horn-rimmed spectacles. To keep his elongated bones together, De Paul University's mild-mannered Mikan makes away with a daily breakfast of oatmeal, a half dozen eggs, ham, angel cake, three cups of coffee, a cod-liver pill...
...using tanks built in Montreal. Chinese soldiers fought with Toronto-made Bren guns. The British Army rolled on trucks from Oshawa, Ontario. U.S. pilots flew in Curtiss Helldivers from Fort William. The wheat from the great prairies, the salmon from British Columbia's deep blue inlets and cod from Nova Scotia's offshore fisheries fed Britain...