Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...founder, and of Hertz's tough right-hand man Daniel G. Arnstein (who later turned the Burma Road into an efficient supply line). John Hertz and "My Boy Danny" are no longer on Keeshin's board, but air-minded Lehman Corp. ''who also have a finger in both American Airlines and Pan American Airways) still own a big chunk of his company. Keeshin's grandiose postwar air-freight plan is to serve over 200 U.S. cities with five-to-eleven-ton transports and also to establish "gateway" service for foreign freight runs...
...tilted suddenly. For a moment the sharp bow pointed a long finger toward the sky, then vanished. One of Hitler's Atlantic Fleet had sunk at 12:37 p.m., little more than an hour after she surfaced...
Beyond the Mountains. Chungking was 300 miles away from the battle, and finger-thin gorges and towering peaks lay between the Japanese and the Chinese capital. Chungking was not threatened nor in any immediate danger...
Troops on the Trains. The American correspondents found that optimists place the pro-Ally sentiment in "Swedes at 95%, and pessimists seldom drop the percentage below 90%. The correspondents also put their finger on the sorest spot in Sweden-the transport of Nazi troops over Swedish railways to Norway...
...some authorities trace it to the Italian occare, meaning to harrow. The ancient Chinese, Aztecs and Incas all played a similar instrument. Its introduction to Western civilization dates from the late 19th Century, when an Italian named Donati made a turnip-shaped flute of baked clay with eight finger holes. He subsequently killed himself by falling off a balcony. Perfected by a German wagon maker named Heinrich Fiehn, Donati's invention became the rage of Vienna in the '90s. The very finest ocarinas were manufactured from the mud of the beautiful blue Danube...