Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall basis, the U.S. is still no where near bedrock. The civilian-supply problem will remain a problem of specific tight spots at specific regional pressure points as long as an inventory cushion remains - and as long as U.S. distributors continue to stay in business in large numbers despite their troubles. But the pressure upon inventories and upon little businessmen is bound to increase. Next year, unless present danger signals are heeded, the breakdowns may be wholesale - and destructive in a strictly military sense...
...bailing out, not primarily to save the plane but to help save his skin. The plane will help guide searching parties, provide shelter, fuel for warmth and smoke signals, materials to make sun helmets and knives. Other handy equipment in planes: a parachute for a tent, a converted seat cushion for a sun helmet, a parachute pack as a knapsack...
...council, no inspired program of joint political action, Britons wrote off the conference as just another meeting between their good friend Franklin Roosevelt and their old war horse Winston Churchill. A wit cabled that popular response to the conference made a sound like a feather falling on a velvet cushion...
...Northwest hinterland is fabulous, remote Sinkiang province (Chinese Turkestan), once a wild and bloody tribal battleground, now a virtual Russian buffer state. To Chiang Kai-shek this had long been an undeveloped treasure house, a possible last refuge for Free China; to Russia it was a cushion against Japanese-infiltrated Mongolia, against British influence from India. Last week the U.S. planned a consulate there-deeper inside Asia and Asiatic politics than this Government had ever penetrated before...
...there was dancing in the streets and singing in the bars. In Ottawa, in a hospital suite declared Dutch territory for the day, to Crown Princess Juliana had been born a 7 lb. 12 oz. daughter, her third. Day after birth the baby was placed on a lace-covered cushion, ceremoniously presented by her father to the registrar, who presently set down her name: Margriet Francisco-Margriet for "daisy." On the cushion was affixed a daisy-shaped jewel sent from London by Grandmother Queen Wilhelmina. Doubtless fixed in the minds of secretly celebrating burghers in The Netherlands was the meaning...