Word: diamonditis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Destiny went west. It gathered in Alaska by peaceful purchase, and Hawaii by annexation. But the real diamond of the Pacific, the Philippine Archipelago, was not for sale. It belonged to Spain, a backward oppressor. With a deep breath and a fierce face, Manifest Destiny hitched up its pants and went to war-for "Cuba libre" and a free Philippines...
When Pittsburgh's Pressed Steel Car Co., Inc. was organized in 1899, its sales manager was a man named James Buchanan Brady. People called him "Diamond Jim." Greatest of all bigtime spenders, Diamond Jim Brady didn't throw his enormous parties just for fun-they paid off in enormous sales...
Then along came a lot of big war contracts-and a man named Ernest Murphy. He was tough and bejowled, just like Diamond Jim, but he was no party-thrower. The hard-working Mr. Murphy shook the dust and defeatism out of Pressed Steel, gave it a new kind of flash. Result: last week, after nearly half a century of making nothing but freight cars, Pressed Steel sparkled with plans to invade the home-appliance field. The first shiny electric ranges were rolling off the production lines in its Chicago plant...
Summer competition among the intramural sporting set will heighten in intensity this afternoon at Soldiers Field when the Lowell House We-Can-Take-It If-You-Can softball outfit battles with Kirkland's famous Diamond Devils...
...Glamor on sets and costumes. One of the first postwar productions to splurge on lavish, prewar-style props, the picture was shot over five acres of lot covered with $300,000 worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...