Word: jig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumored that the faculty officers are organizing a softball team for entrance in the a forming NSCS league. Here, fellow seniors, is our chance to get even for that 11 page three hour exam of last week. Speaking of that quiz, the axe fell on every class but Jig, the latter landing more men on the "P" list than all the rest of the classes combined. Most of the perennial "P" listers are back with the boys again...
Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
Bricks and Stuff. Pleased with the camouflage job, the Government asked F. & K. to turn out 300,000 adobe bricks to build bomb shelters, protective blast walls around important installations. Although the firm had never made a brick, it took over a Sacramento brickyard, finished the contract in jig time, is now building up a stockpile. The Government next wanted barracks and housing projects painted. F. & K. painted them. Fortnight ago President Kleiser and Vice President Foster got together in their San Francisco offices, rosily viewed the balance sheet. For the year ended March 31, gross income...
Australians call the bush-haired natives "Abos" or "Boongs"; the complex, almost telepathic process by which they trail missing men is "blacktracking." Soon after U.S. troops arrived, two soldiers took a furlough to go hunting, and got bushed. A tracker turned them up in jig time after 400 white soldiers had scoured the area in vain...
...before the season was opened on Japs and Nazis. The British were the first to use it in military ammunition: after Dunkirk, Western built a plant for England. Since then, more than a billion rounds have been loaded with the new powder. Factories in the U.S. went up in jig time because the process needed only materials and equipment available locally-often assembled by local boilermakers...