Word: extinct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most passenger equipment is outmoded and should be completely replaced with fast, streamlined trains. (One railroad executive admitted: "One of the radical departures is to consider the comfort and convenience of the passenger." Another: "The open-section Pullman car is as extinct as the dodo." Another: "We will never buy another heavyweight car . . . car builders will be swamped with orders for [streamlined] equipment...
...There hasn't been a successful Army band in the country, and if someone doesn't get after band music and streamline it, Army music will be extinct in another couple years. We've got to keep pace with the soldiers. They want up-to-date music. Why, there's no question about it - anybody can improve on Sousa." Fearful that Captain Miller's crusade would leave the U.S. Army swinging its hips instead of its feet, old-guard Army musicians creaked with suppressed fury. One old Sousaphile, Bandmaster Edwin Franko Goldman, most famous...
...Indian, he says, far from becoming extinct, is "our most rapidly growing minority." Indians in the U.S. and Alaska number 394,280, are increasing at the rate of "1% a year compared with 0.7% for the whole population." "It was with the Indian that our patterns of 'color reaction' and 'color behavior' were first conditioned" and became so set that Americans rarely consider that "a large part of [our] race psychology" derives from their ancestors' experiences with Indians on the ever-shifting frontier...
Lithe, little and lively, bustling as a Jersey mosquito, Studebaker worked his way through a now extinct cow-college as a bricklayer, got a Columbia master's degree, taught school, served as national director of Junior Red Cross in World...
Since January 1942 the Japanese had held Rabaul on Blanche Bay, the flooded crater of an extinct volcano which gives deep water almost to the shore. In peacetime Rabaul's tiny wharf was used chiefly by island trading ships of two companies, W. R. Carpenter & Co. and Burns Philp & Co. Now the harbor is a great Japanese naval and troop-transport center. From it, short and efficient supply lines radiate to forward bases above both shoulders of Australia-a score of spots such as Kupang on Timor and Gizo in the Solomons. From those forward bases, which like Rabaul...