Word: jolts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tank destroyer outfit and had a class on how to drive a tank and they let us try it out. . . . We would be cruising along peacefully like when all of a sudden we would be flying through the air and when we came down, what a jolt ! Now there is a difference between a tank destroyer called a T.D. and a regular tank...
Britons who rate among life's necessities the hot, soaking bath complete with whisk, sponge and loofah got a jolt last week. It came from testy, aging (78) Viscount Maugham, elder brother of Novelist W. Somerset Maugham. Said the Viscount, during a House of Lords debate on water shortage: "As pleasant as it is to have a daily bath, it is not really necessary to health. Many lads who came back from Africa had not had a bath in three months and they will tell you they were none the worse. A bath very largely is a luxury...
...argued Food ($2.75; Knopf), 239 pages of easy-to-read economics that may jolt the complacent U.S. The authors, Cornell University's crisp economist, Frank A. Pearson, professor of prices and statistics, and his ex-graduate student New York State farmer Don Paarlberg, carefully avoided the best-seller technique of sensational prophecy, a la Louis Bromfield (TIME, Feb. 14). But, with genuine alarm and deep conviction, they point to a coming food crisis...
Secret of the use of such powerful loads in a plane is the new mechanism for absorbing the recoil. Pilots say there is little effect on flight characteristics, only a thumping jolt like driving a car over a stone in the road...
Significantly for U.S. industry, the women will be hit hardest by the change, in Cumberland they will find no cushion to soften the jolt. Few have worked long enough to be eligible for unemployment compensation. In ordnance work, women inspect, gauge, operate automatic machines. But tiremaking is a hard, dirty, heavy job. A mere 300 may eventually get back their jobs with The Kelly. The remainder, some of whom worked just long enough to buy fur coats on the installment plan, must move away to find jobs, stay at home, join the WACS...