Word: jigged
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This week the Wanous-Brown program passed its first anniversary. Not an inkwell had yet been thrown. The classes have spread to union hiring halls, high schools, other aircraft plants. Last week labor and management were still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow...
...very end of the bitter campaign for Leyte, the Japs kept at their old tricks. The jig was up, but still some of them filtered into a regimental command post of the 32nd Division on a foully dark night. Their helmets were daubed with phosphorous paint for identification. But in close-quarter brawls, many helmets were knocked...
...Lapham, roly-poly mayor of San Francisco, raced his sedan through the city and across Golden Gate Park toward the University of California Hospital; in the back seat was his expectant daughter, Mrs. Ernst Ophuls, comforted by Mrs. Lapham. He got to the hospital's emergency exit in jig-time, only to find it locked, had to sprint up a flight of stairs to get the gate opened, then went off in search of hospital attendants. The stork won the race: when His Honor returned to the car, he found he was a grandfather for the tenth time...
...assault force was three Chinese divisions and a few U.S. combat engineers. In preparation for the attack, Chinese dug trenches through Japanese machine-gun fields, and Americans flew in a five-ton 155-mm. howitzer-the biggest gun ever used in the battle. When the assault burst out, the jig...
...following this tradition, the Junker generals had let the Kaiser go packing when the jig was up, and graciously permitted a new civilian government to bear the onus of defeat. But the Kaiser had not had a Heinrich Himmler, with his SS and Waffen SS, armies within armies, spies and informers, ruthless execution squads...