Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roughly equivalent to a broad jump...
...analyzing its way through the 1,381,681 major crimes committed in the U.S. in 1943, had even sadder news about girl criminals. The number of under-21 girls arrested leaped 130.4% over 1941. Biggest jump was in the "V-girl" area of "amateur" prostitution and saloon-going, which FBI politely calls "offenses against public decency." But there was also a 30% increase in girl burglaries...
...industry nevertheless sought a court injunction against the possibility. When the injunction was denied, the industry filed an appeal. The problem was still in the courts when the voluntary price reductions began last week. No one could guess exactly whether the industry's sudden price cut was a jump out of the way of a falling...
...months beribboned Navy flyers have whispered behind waving hands of a dream plane they could hardly wait to fly. It was supposed to combine the best features of fighter and bomber, have the fire-power of a small battleship, be as big a jump ahead of the pistol-hot Hellcat as that airplane was ahead of the Wildcat. Last week came first acknowledgment of the Navy's super-fighter, casually mentioned in the Truman Committee report...
...manufacturers loose now to produce as much as they want to," he said, "I don't know what we would do at the end of the war." (Behind this fear was another one which constantly agitates WPBigwigs: that an early-bird reconvert would get an unfair jump on his competitors unless his production were restricted to his share of the prewar market...