Word: jam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crusty old (77) Jesse Jones had no reason to be surprised that the influence boys have been working on the RFC. During the twelve turbulent years that Jones supervised the open-handed Government corporation, politicians from President Roosevelt down continually eyed the jam pot. In a book published this week (Fifty Billion Dollars, Macmillan; $6), Jones takes this and many another angry cut at the Administration of which he was a part and at the President under whom he served...
...quality of the sandwiches could be easily improved. One made of fresh bread covered with mayonnaise or some other spread, placed firmly around good-sized portions of meat, and another with tasty jam would be much more welcome than the present four appetite-killers...
...cabbies didn't like it. Last week the cabbies threatened revenge. They would drive only at legal speeds, give the crossing pedestrian a sporting chance, acknowledge the other motorists' right of way, and strictly obey every traffic law. The result, they vowed, would be the worst traffic jam Paris has ever seen...
...Jam for Jimmy If Jimmy Yancey didn't actually originate boogie-woogie, he might as well have: he was playing it 35 years ago, long before it became big time. In Chicago, jazz lovers could find Jimmy in such southside clubs as the old Bear Trap No. 1 and Moonlight Inn, shrouded in cigarette smoke, his big eyelids drooping, playing the rich kind of boogie blues that made his fellow Negroes proud and sad, his white listeners rapt and respectful...
Harvey had been turning out 20-mm. antiaircraft shells in World War II when the Navy investigated a report that oversized shells-likely to jam in guns or blow them up-were getting past the Navy's own inspectors in the plant. The investigation disclosed that one of the gauges being used for Navy inspection was defective. According to the Intelligence report, the plant itself had made defective gauges on orders of Plant Manager Herbert Harvey, Leo's brother. On the original order for the off-size gauges, Herbert Harvey had penciled: "Make five more like this...