Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electronic industry was no dwarf in the peacetime U.S. Then nearly 150 million tubes, of more than 400 different types, were produced in a year. Radio equipment production jumped from well under half a billion dollars in 1941 to $1 billion in 1942. Plans for 1943 will bring the production figure to $3 billion. Military secrecy cloaks the uses to which tubes are being put but these totals tell the story of their myriad usefulness...
...voices of the announcers are seldom natural, casual, human. Here is a solemn pulpit voice, preaching of clogged sinuses; here is a maniac with a congenital megaphone; here is baby talk, about as cute as a dwarf in diapers...
...MIDGET MURDERS-Craig Rice -Simon & Schuster ($2). A lively and unorthodox Chicago trio, Lawyer Malone and a young-couple-about-town, finally snare the slayer of a diabolically minded dwarf who badly needed killing. Genially ribald dialogue and a cleverly concocted plot...
Details of this "unique" job are a military secret, but, in broad outline, it is a mass-production method for building cargo ships that should dwarf World War I's Hog Island. Higgins' swelling backlog includes a minimum 200 Liberty ships-the biggest single order the Maritime Commission ever placed...
Even hard-boiled Collectors of Internal Revenue, who are not easily fazed, were fazed on "T" (for Tax) Day. Thousands of little wage-earners, filing their first returns under the new tax law's dwarf-high exemptions ($750 for single persons), owed no tax at all. Hundreds of them paid up just the same. They sent in checks ranging from $5 to $100-unsolicited gifts to the Government, to help...