Word: distinguishable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the first Spits and Thunderbolts started their escort work last spring, trigger-itchy gunners of Forts and Liberators warned them that it was hard to distinguish between friend & foe in an air battle. Some friendly fighters were shot down before fighters learned never to point their noses at bombers, as attacking Nazis do. Some bomber men had to be taught better recognition and understanding of fighter tactics...
...Japs Back Here Ever." The mother lodge (15,000 members) of the Fraternal Order of Eagles voted unanimously in Seattle to deport all U.S. Japanese after the war. So did the Portland Progressive Business Men's Club, and the Oregon State Legion. Hardly anyone ever bothered to distinguish between the alien Japanese, who are deportable, and U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. A battalion of U.S.-born Japs is fighting well in the front line in Italy; another 2,500 Japanese-Americans are elsewhere in the U.S. Army; hundreds serve in Military Intelligence in the South Pacific; 20,000, cleared...
...Life & High Living. The main story of Taps for Private Tussie is about the surviving Tussies (known as the Relief Tussies to distinguish them from the Tussies who remained Republican) in their swift squandering of Uncle Kim's $10,000 insurance. It is thus a Tobacco Road of the hill people, more shocking because it deals with the death of a soldier, painful and raucous in many of its details of low life among the people for whom he died, but enlivened all the way through by Jesse Stuart's magnificent use of his native idiom...
...strictly a woman's magazine. Born in the '90s, it was at first a thin, snobbish weekly beamed at socialites and full of socialite-weight stuff. One early issue, peering snootily over its lorgnette, inquired: "Now that the masses take baths every week, how can one ever distinguish the gentleman?" For years Vogue carried a stock feature labeled "The Well-Dressed...
Even Businessman Jesse Jones joined the Army & Navy in opposing renegotiation after taxes. Their grounds: 1) it would make the Government pay industry's taxes, in effect, 2) would fail to distinguish between the profit that industry deserves on its own investment and what it should get on the investment of public funds (as in the case of Government-built factories). All Government witnesses, including the Treasury, came out flat-footed against allowing postwar reserves as a cost item in war contracts. Their reasons: 1) existing tax laws already allow for some postwar reconversion cost...