Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...making buoyant Hap Arnold a general, Commander in Chief Roosevelt spotlighted the growth of the Army Air Forces, whose enrollment is expected to jump from 1,500,000 to about 2,450,000 by year's end. He also corrected two situations: as a lieutenant general, Arnold 1) has been the only member of the Joint (British-American) Chiefs of Staff to wear less than four stars, 2) has had six of the eleven U.S. lieutenant generals who are overseas serving under him while sharing his rank...
...tall telephone pole way up in the air with the dangling ropes-- that is the treat. It is just enough to keep everyone happy. Beneath these dangling ropes is a pit, twelve feet across and five feet deep. The object is to spring the forty yards between obstacles, jump six feet, grab the rope and swing across the chasm to the other side. Another spring of forty feet, another hurdle and then the dessert, (boy, what a meal.) Everyone likes a large, sweet, mouth-watering dessert. The Obstacle Course provides exactly that. A ladder extends in the air for thirty...
...Danger Signals? The big question in Emanuel's strong and massive new setup is whether it is fast and flexible enough to jump the hurdles which have tripped many a big-time industrial conglomeration. Outstanding example is Curtiss-Wright Corp., an outfit which was tossed together in 1929 with high hopes and publicity, promptly piled up big deficits because of the great depression, gangling training schools, overfinanced flying fields and loosely coordinated manufacturing divisions...
Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
...Coggeshall, meeting stiff competition in the two mile race, may take a fourth or fifth, while Tom Holyoke, whose leg is taped from knee to groin, may find the going difficult in the broad jump...