Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of steel the famed Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit may grind to a stop within a few weeks. Elsewhere in the Detroit area the Chevrolet gear and axle plant, the Fisher Body plant No. 1 are already shut down...
Called "The Professor off the Platform," this series of broadcasts is designed to give students a chance to argue with professors, and, Network officials say, "even to grind their favorite axe." Future programs will bring only in the social science course, but before the mike faculty members not also in most of the popular neids of study in the catologue...
During its nearly 20 years of weekly publication, TIME has devoted itself to keeping its readers well informed. It has been the servant of no other cause or master. It has had no ax to grind. And TIME can hope that in informing the best-informed citizens of the Republic it has been performing one of the nation's needful tasks...
Record: Perfect. However tough the grind, airline pilots love this work. Long known as the cantankerous prima donnas of aviation, pilots formerly raised the hangar roof if a single field light was out or the stewardess forgot the chewing gum. Now they fly over trackless wastes (usually without radio), land on bad fields, sleep in flimsy shanties-and never squawk. And their record grounds everyone: not a single lost plane, not a single accident...
...Libyan Desert the air quivered in the peak heat of the early hot season. The heat made men and machines thirstier, and the desert was stingy with water. Metal in the sun was too hot to touch. But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines. And it was not too hot to fight...