Word: fabricator
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine which smoothes its face. In a noisy Detroit cellar-school a mother of three works with a hand riveter -inserting rivets, inspecting them, and drilling them out if imperfect. And thousands of girls all over the U.S. are making small parts on machines, inspecting, filling shells, putting fabric on non-stress areas of bomber wings, bending tubing to fit into fuselages, making rubber boats, assembling machine guns and small arms. They work as long as ten hours a day on day, "swing," and "graveyard" shifts...
...veterans recalled World War I's old flying "Jennies" (the JN types, fabric-covered, wooden cratelike structures), the wooden Lockheeds (the type Wiley Post flew around the world) and Fokker commercial planes of more than ten years ago. They had high praise for planes mainly built of wood on grounds of greater maneuverability, especially on quickly built temporary landing fields. The Army explains that it is not yet ready for wooden combat planes, is meanwhile ordering more & more wooden primary trainers, has available a design for an advanced trainer in which priority precious metals may be replaced by wood...
After a swipe at "the skillful work" Washington did for the auto industry in publicizing its curtailment plans ("a cash value of hundreds of thousands of dollars in increased sales") Editor Elhart tore into the subject of fabric conservation. He wrote...
...trousers to bail out the mountainous combers breaking over the raft. One wave flipped the raft completely over. Then the men lost everything, including their clothes. Exhausted, when the storm subsided, they were stark naked. When the sun came out again, their only shelter was a tiny piece of fabric ripped off the oar pocket. On the 33rd day the raft capsized once more. "For the first time," Dixon said, "I was ready to give up." His nerves were so frayed that he flew into violent rages. But Aldrich and Pastula only stared at him. Then came the 34th...
Mutter. The Japs made the tension. Of the 423,330 Hawaiian inhabitants, about 40,000 are Japanese aliens. Another 120,000 are citizens of Japanese descent. They are woven beyond unraveling into the fabric of Hawaiian life-they serve in the Army, labor in the fields and refineries, work on war projects. Japs known to be unfriendly (consuls, enemy agents, teachers) have been segregated on Sand Island. Some have been shipped back to the U.S. Japs' guns and short-wave radios have been confiscated. But if Lieut. General Delos C. Emmons ordered all Japs interned, Hawaii's economy...