Word: coronae
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert Einstein, corona-haired saint of science who became a U.S. citizen in 1940 and casts his first presidential vote next November, plumped for a Fourth Term: "There is no doubt that in the present international situation it is very dangerous to change leadership...
...Last week the Army told L. C. Smith & Corona Typewriters, Inc. to stop turning out Springfield rifles and go back to making typewriters. Reason: the Army is now getting enough Garand rifles...
...seaboard members of the informal fellowship of amateur astronomers. All over the U.S., through handmade telescopes mounted in attics, haylofts, garages, cornfields, hilltops, these sidereal sightseers lift up their eyes on cloudless nights to peer at the stars. Until the dimout their stargazing was hampered by the electric corona (newspapers now call it "lume") that glares on the sky above brightly lit towns. Now, with lights out or dimmed, amateur astronomers can see new hundreds of feeble stars...
CALIFORNIA: James D. Burke, 16, of Corona del Mar; Webb School of California, Claremont; Rufus B. Clark, Jr., 18, of Los Angeles; Los Angeles High School; Peter M. Lewis, 17, of Redlands; Webb School, Claremont. Lawrence S. Timpson, Jr., 17, of Piedmont; Piedmont High School; Don Tocher, 16, of Carmel High School; Truman O. Woodruff, 17, of Oakland; Oakland High School...
...Typewriterdom's Big Four (Royal, Remington, Underwood, Smith & Corona) expect to cut production of standard machines 25% under the 1941 rate until April 1, thereafter 40%. After March 15 they will make no more noiseless machines at all; and after April 1, no more portables. Furthermore, all portables made from now on will be reserved for Army & Navy...