Word: cutters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picked a time for his new landing party when Douglas MacArthur's usually competent airmen were inexplicably and disastrously off their stride. The week of butterfigered fielding of what was, aeronautically, a pop fly began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
White Cloud, a 60-ft. cutter owned by Detroit's Charles E. Sorensen: the 35th annual Chicago-to-Mackinac yacht race, world's longest fresh-water race; in her first try; outsailing 24 other Class A cruising entries and finishing eleven hours ahead of her nearest rival. A recent refugee from East Coast racing, White Cloud made the 331 miles (steamer route) in 38 hr. 14 min. 5 sec., fastest time since 1911. Absent from the helm was Owner Sorensen, Ford's production chief, too busy to take three days off even for his favorite pastime...
Five years ago a Massachusetts jewel cutter asked Army Ordnance officers if they were preparing a sure source of synthetic jewels for military instruments. He was told that the matter was too small to bother about...
...uncut boules are shipped to U.S. jewelers to be split, sawed, cut, drilled, polished for use as bearings. This stage remains a serious bottleneck. Reason: jewel cutting in the U.S. involves more handwork than in Europe, where it is a highly mechanized art. So far the best apprentice jewel cutters have been nimble-fingered seamstresses. Grumbled a master jewel cutter last week: "We have been called upon to do a staggering job without having time to develop the machine methods it took the Swiss 100 years to develop...
Miss Annie Rooney (Small; United Artists) is that old rug-cutter Shirley Temple, now 13, brown-haired, weighing 102 lb., standing a fraction over five feet, and desperately trying to maneuver through girlhood without losing her cinemappeal. It is tough sledding. Shirley Temple fans will have to suffer such inanities as Annie Rooney until she gets her growth...