Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finishing a $50 million postwar expansion program, Cat is going to turn out the new diesel and step up production of diesel-powered Caterpillars to grade roads, dig foundations, clear jungles and move mountains all over the world. With its new production Cat hopes to boost its sales, already the highest in its history. Last year, on a gross of $218 million, Cat reported a net profit of $13.7 million, nearly 40% over...
...Eighty-year-old Scott Pillsbury took advantage of mild weather at Scarborough, Me., hurried to a public cemetery to dig his grave before the ground froze. He explained that he expected to die soon, and disapproved of the local custom of storing bodies through winter months and burying them in the spring...
...voters had been asked to pay billions in Marshall Plan aid, and billions for U.S. military expansion. Last week, in his first formal report, Defense Secretary Jim Forrestal told them that all this was still not enough for security against the Russians.* The U.S. taxpayers would also have to dig up more billions to arm America's friends abroad...
...authors make the business of turning mouse into man a single-tracked exercise in tortured double meanings and thin, three-cornered situations. Truex can dig a coy toe into the carpet with the best of the professional Milquetoasts; he can be equally amusing as a self-fancied Don Juan who struts only to trip. But here he is the victim of a greater incongruity-a script that manages to make sex look pretty stale...
...yanks the ten-year-old Playwrights' Company out of a slump that had threatened to end a unique Broadway team. Last season, for the first time since it was formed by Maxwell Anderson, S. N. Behrman, Sidney Howard, Elmer Rice and Robert E. Sherwood, the partners could not dig up a play among them; Broadway wondered loudly whether the old hands had lost their grip. Now the Playwrights plan to follow Anne with four more in the current season...