Word: helpers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Assistant Cook A. M. McKillop was short-handed and in a tearing hurry. His supper menu at the Oregon State Hospital for the Insane, in Salem, called for scrambled eggs. He needed powdered milk to make them. Against the rules he dispatched a kitchen-helper inmate to the catacomb-like cellar to bring him a new supply...
...down a Focke-Wulf 190 in the skies over Dieppe. (Modestly he claimed only a "probable" victory, because he did not have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
...reasoning, I picked a fundamental trade in one of the defense industries most likely to be doing business as usual when the show is over and the monkey dead. I am a boilermaker's helper at Sun Oil in Marcus Hook, Pa. I like it ... and I seem to have some talent for it. I've lost some fat around the waist and between the ears. And I'm a little proud of the modest bit I'm doing in our war effort...
...tanks and bombers, rather than toothsome girlish smiles, will sell this year's quota of cigarets and soup to the U.S. public. Last week the most important barometer of U.S. advertising art indicated that the long reign of the pretty girl, the adman's most unfailing little helper, was temporarily on the decline. That barometer was the annual exhibition of the Art Directors Club of New York, year's biggest event in advertising...
...itself. Besides ferrying planes to jumping-off points, it must transport troops, carry military air freight, find or train pilots for over-water runs. As the job grew greater, it needed more management manpower. The Air Corps Chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, looked around for a helper, last week tapped tall, drawling Cyrus Rowlett Smith, American Airlines president, for the job. "C.R.," an ace airline executive, pushed American to the top of the domestic airline heap...