Word: do-it-yourself
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...without vitality, pluck or distinguished ideas." The words "love, loyalty, honesty" rarely appear because the experts regard them as too abstract. "Sin is out . . . but (and quite logically) so is virtue. The children depicted in modern readers live in an uncharted ethical miasma of being 'happy,' engaging in do-it-yourself pursuits . . . with nice fathers and mothers in the background, who display no virtues beyond being kind and indulgent to their little ones...
...Osborne, communications are both occupation and preoccupation. He started in the business as a boy, delivering Postal telegrams at 1? a message in New York City. When the U.S. entered World War I he was a radio ham, tapping out Morse code on his do-it-yourself set. The National Guard quickly shipped him off to Old Point Comfort, Va. to help start a military radio school. Later, he threaded his way upward through the postwar mergers of telegraph and telephone companies. By 1951, just before he joined TIME, he was an operations and personnel executive for Western Union...
When his plan came to light, the Civil Aeronautics Administration blinked, then decided that Jimmy's unguided missile would violate air regulations. The U.S. Army was more sympathetic, even offered to examine his do-it-yourself rocket at the massive Redstone Arsenal, center of its guided missile program...
Fast Grower. Plywood, for example, is the fastest-growing building material in the U.S. Because of the demand from contractors and do-it-yourself buffs who are nailing up 4.8 billion sq. ft. of plywood a year, plywood sales have increased 20% faster than even those of the booming aluminum industry in the past 15 years. Manufacturers have also pioneered a host of new products, from low-priced particle board, made of chips and shavings, to weatherproof, plastic-coated plywood and porcelain-faced colored panels (choice of nine) for bathrooms or exterior remodeling. The biggest push for wood products...
...until recently, Hall would get up around 5 a.m. and look over at Davis' house to see if the kitchen light was on. If he decided his friend was out of bed, Hall would go next door, and over a pot of strong coffee the two would discuss big do-it-yourself projects. After another round of coffee and more planning in the Hall kitchen, they would go to work. In their time Hall and Davis have: stripped down and reassembled Davis' Ford; lowered the ceiling and completely modernized the Hall kitchen; enlarged Davis' porch; built bookcases...