Word: feather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...before he went overseas in 1918, became a troop movement officer and later a Judge Advocate (Army for lawyer) for the Service of Supply. Later he was professor of law at West Point, adviser to a succession of international military conferences in Geneva between 1925 and 1932. Biggest military feather in his cap: handling of the troop movements of the A. E. F. for the St. Mihiel offensive, of the movements of the Fourth Corps into the Argonne. For this job he got the Distinguished Service Medal. At 60, spectacled General Strong sits at the ornate desk once owned...
...President Trammell is no front-office window dressing. Rated a supersalesman in Chicago, he distinguished himself there by boosting NBC billings to over a million a month, just twelve times as much as the New York headmen expected him to get when they sent him west in 1928. Big feather in Trammell's Chicago cap was a "million-dollar" contract he wangled with Pepsodent, which transformed Amos 'n' Andy from a sustaining show into a national institution in 1929. A great one for soap operas, he can still point with pride to such Trammell-promoted shows...
...DELIVER AMERICA FROM THIS MODERN DON QUIXOTE. ROOSEVELT THE SECOND UPSETS ANOTHER CHERISHED AMERICAN TRADITION. ABANDONING THE SLOGAN, SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY A BIG STICK, MADE POPULAR BY TEDDY THE GREAT, OUR REBEL-ROUSING ROOSEVELT MAKES IT READ "BRAY LOUDLY AND BRANDISH A FEATHER DUSTER...
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. is well under way on its $10,400,000 contract, let in February 1939, for four Maritime Commission cargo ships for American Export Lines. In the yard at Decatur an estimated $1,000,000 worth of river craft were last week building. But the big feather in Ingalls' cap was a fat $16,000,000 contract for four sleek, 489-foot, 9,2Oo-ton passenger ships originally destined for U. S. Lines' New York-London trade. Ingalls is not alone in its belief that the riveted ship is on the way out. Near Newport News...
...Archinard's apartment, ruined 10,000 francs worth of fresh paint and plaster. White-lipped but determined, Archinard waited for quiet, then returned to his machine. Brushing aside bits of broken glass, he proceeded to bat out an eyewitness account of the bombing that added another feather to radio newscasting's well-feathered war bonnet. The German advance has closed one after another outlet to U. S. war broadcasters. But while they had spots to talk from, they have done their jobs well...