Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Also quite agreeable to the notion that stockpiling must fit in with business as usual, the Munitions Board, during 1947 and '48, generally followed Congress's injunction to buy only items that U.S. industry wasn't buying. Reason: it did not want to disturb price structures throughout the world. Then, after reassessing the chances of war, the board got its courage up, began to buy urgently and widely, and set itself a new goal of a $4 billion stockpile by 1956. Again it stirred up a fuss. Three weeks before the Korean invasion, zinc men howled that...
...Government buried us in controls. Take sizes, for instance. Before the war we were making a nice job -6 ft. 6 by 26. Along comes the war, and the Government tells us what to make-6 ft. 3 by 22 was the largest. Son, the morticians had to fit them in with a shoehorn. All because the Government didn't know people had been growing bigger." Lem flicked an ash off his brown Palm Beach suit. "You've seen those high-class metal handles. We couldn't get them any more, so we had to use wood...
Poolad Gurd is 8 ft. 2 in. tall, and his feet are so long (22 in.) that he can find no shoes to fit them. He protects them instead with pieces of automobile tires. The rest of Poolad, an unlettered peasant from Persian Baluchistan, matches his feet. "When I was 15," he told a reporter, "I was a mighty man already. I could race the camels and pass them. Once I lifted a thousand pounds of wheat sacks." All his might, however, has brought Poolad little happiness. "Sometimes," he says, "you wish you were not tall. A man should marry...
Each year on the anniversary of his retirement, Rosenberg has written to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, reporting himself fit and ready for active duty. He was assigned to a tour as an instructor in seamanship at the Naval Academy. He was fit enough to navigate a sloop in the grueling Newport-Bermuda race. But by a legal quirk, the Navy was powerless to put Rosenberg back on the active list without a special Act of Congress. Rosenberg started lobbying to get the bill through. Last week the Senate passed it, sent it to the House...
...condition, wrote Pearson, "Japan was picked for him as a soft berth." The facts: after a thorough physical examination at Walter Reed General Hospital, General Gay had been certified fit for full duty. On the same day that Pearson's column appeared, the newspapers blared across their front pages the news that Gay had led his division in an amphibious landing at Pohang, Korea (see WAR IN ASIA...