Word: fills
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...although practice has been not to permit manufacturers to sell any model of war plane to a foreign country until six months after sale to the U. S. Army has been made. The President reasoned that French orders would set U. S. factories in motion, make them readier to fill domestic orders. Having talked it over with his Cabinet, he had enabled a French military mission now in the U. S. to see various things it wanted, among them, the Douglas bomber...
Happy Days. These prodigious labors (and enough more to fill dozens of close-set-columns in CCC's last annual report) were performed by young men, poor, not gilded. They had to be poor to get in the corps. In fiscal 1938, arrivals at over 1,500 CCCamps included 253,776 needy, unemployed, unmarried "junior enrollees" from 17 to 23; 17,707 war veterans unlimited by age or marital status; 9,500 Indians on Government reservations; 4,800 indigent Territorials in Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Virgin Islands...
Production of antiaircraft guns and first-line fighting planes still lags below Britain's output in 1918. There has been no rush to fill the ranks of Britain's little army. Civilians who were scared stiff in September by the threat of Adolf Hitler's bombers were recently informed that there was neither time nor money to build deep, underground bomb shelters, that steel shanties to ward off splinters would have to suffice. Even the long trenches gouged in London parks and golf courses for air-raid "protection" have been allowed to crumble and flood...
Walrus tusks. In 1922 Dr. Groves examined a farm boy with a deep cavity in the upper end of his thighbone. No scrap of human bone that Dr. Groves could safely snip from the boy was large enough to fill the space, so he procured a piece of ivory from a walrus tusk, carved it to order, planted it in the cavity. Last October, said Dr. Groves, "a fresh radiogram [Xray] showed that the ivory graft had remained without change as a strut round which human bone had been deposited." Since the operation the patient "has never had any disability...
...Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut. Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring they had heard...