Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trucking regulations were an awful blow to a pretty, 33-year-old redhead from Detroit named Helen Slocum. If no trucks can come home less than 75% loaded, what will happen to the specialized operators (beer, ice cream, etc.) whose equipment is designed for one-way delivery? Helen is such a case. Her specialty is so important that an exception may be made. An off-center Alger heroine, she delivers Navy boats...
...upper-class daughter of a renowned English medico (Philip Merivale), never does answer that one, except to ask her beloved deserter to trust his heart, not his head. But she manages to straighten him out and point his nose toward battle once again with the reasonable admonition: "Whatever does happen, let us decide it, not the enemy...
...weekend had been something that didn't happen to most people, and Vag knew that it couldn't happen again to him--not unless he started growing younger every year. Vag was literal-minded enough to rule out this odd chance. The letter under his hand was only a formal little period to an occasion that had ended two days before. He wondered why he'd written it, now that he thought it over. The letter didn't lead on to anything else. Social habit, maybe. No. And people didn't write bread and butter notes when there...
...Devereux,* Director of Civilian Protection in New York's Westchester County, last week suggested a cure for the playful spirit with which many U.S. citizens meet blackouts. He pointed out that during blackouts people who take them seriously often feel "that some great cosmic thing was about to happen, as though creation were about to occur and a new world were to be born." Said he: "I suggest that while the protective forces are on the physical alert all other residents of Westchester declare a spiritual alert between the warning siren and the all-clear signal so that persons...
...might happen. Britain finally had the tools. Its factories were in good production, and the Air Ministry had only recently announced that U.S. bombers were arriving in the British Isles at a tremendous rate. Planes were bigger. So were bombs. And the defense of Germany in these first few days was not to be compared with the tremendous fight put on by the youngsters of the R.A.F...