Word: easiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ercoupe. Easiest to fly of all light planes is Engineering & Research Corp.'s spraddle-legged, twin-tailed Ercoupe (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace soloed after 7 hrs. 10 min. of instruction in an Ercoupe). With all of its controls operated from a steering wheel, Ercoupe's makers brag that "anyone who can drive a car can learn to fly an Ercoupe." Most notable safety feature: the plane is spinproof. Ercoupes, which were just getting into production when the war choked it off, are now being made at the rate of 25 a month, will soon...
...third page, Jester had run another editorial disparaging "Your New Emergency Council" as a student governing body unrepresentative of the students: "Easiest-method of joining the Emergency Council is to browbeat ten students to sign a petition for one of those quiet elections which slip by every term or so. Since competition is rarely keen, this eliminating process often leads to what is known loosely as election...
...answer: a Swarthmore chemist named Walter Steuber (of Houdry Process Corp.) had decided that the easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as "Mickey Finn"), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid...
...Secret. Mr. Rizzitello and some 2,500 other combat veterans who were in the U.S. on furloughs from the Pacific and European theaters were the lucky ones who caught demobilization on the first R-day. They were the easiest cases in the Army's program for releasing 2,000,000 soldiers in the next twelve months of successive R-(for redeployment) days...
Terror and Force. Adolf tried to reason with his fellow bricklayers. "I argued till finally one day they applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force." He was learning fast. Hitler was given the choice of quitting the job or being tossed off the scaffold. He quit. He also took to reading Socialist literature and attending Socialist meetings to find out what it was all about. His researches led him to a conclusion that was to blossom later into the horrors of concentration camps like Maidenek, Buchenwald and Dachau...