Word: corduroy
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothes makers with restrictions on materials, dyes, slide fasteners. Pure wools and silk are disappearing fast and rayon supplies are not inexhaustible-manufacturers have had to piece them out with reprocessed fibers, re-used wools, the new cloth made of milk (aralac), mohair, rabbit fur, and with cotton gabardine, corduroy, velveteen featured for winter...
...Daily News last week reported news of this new U.S. air front. In a dispatch datelined "A Labrador Air Base," Newsman B. J. McQuaid told how construction crews waded ashore from ships off Labrador, cut down trees and built rafts to float their first equipment ashore, then built a corduroy causeway to the ships, then hauled enough tools and material ashore to build a dock. Afterward, in 20-ft. snows, they cleared a roadway 100 miles inland, built an airport complete with runways, hangars, living quarters...
Into a neighborhood health center crowded 44 buzzing citizens, ranging from a boy in green corduroy slacks to a determined-looking grandmother. They all came to learn First Aid from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...
...assaulting trucks drove right to the swamp. "Smoky Joe's" engineers quickly cut pine and scrub oak trees, in 25 minutes laid a corduroy road across the bog, swept into the astounded 39th (white) Infantry on the Ninth's southern flank. Again the engineers wove through and around the enemy lines, ran some of their truck-tanks clear to the division command post (but caught no generals; they had fled). Before the games ended, in horrid confusion, the 41st was credited with halting the Ninth Division's planned attack for at least a day, perhaps disrupting...
...brought up, educated at Shadyside Academy and Cornell. From 1908 to 1914 young Joe learned the oil business-five nights without sleep bringing in a new Illinois well, driving eight-ox teams with loads of pipe through West Virginia mud, laying a 20-mile stretch of solid-mahogany corduroy-road in Venezuela. During World War I he joined Sun Oil's Philadelphia office as aide to Elder Brother John Howard, who is a little taller, greyer, soberer. In 1916 Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had been founded in Chester, Pa. largely to build oil tankers. Under shrewd Pew management...