Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compiled from what the boys make on their regular jobs. The backer dropped the idea, and Brick was relieved. "We don't want any commercialism," he said. "We're a self-endowed institution . . . a little college. . . . It's mutual learning [as to] what will make us jump or rock or ride better...
...export policy. The Austin will be followed by 20 more export models (which have chrome trimmings and leather upholstery, missing from domestic models) due in the U.S. within two weeks. Another 15 are en route to Argentina. Austi-Motor Co., Ltd. has been able to get its postwar jump on U.S. automakers because it really never stopped Austin production: the Austin-made British jeep, a utility truck, was built on the same chassis as the civilian models. Austin expects to turn out 8,000 cars by year's end, expects to send the U.S. market about...
Like a man taking his first parachute jump, U.S. business had dreaded to step off into reconversion. But last week the National City Bank of New York said that the drop in production had been unexciting, the landing surprisingly easy. In its monthly letter the bank rosily reported...
...troops himself, and was on hand for the dawn take-off to wish the men "good luck, now." As Sixth Army commander he had worked out the plan to end the Cagayan Valley campaign in northern Luzon. He had a special interest in the 11th Airborne Division's jump be hind Japanese lines...
...Commented the 37th's Major General Robert S. Beightler, who was later nicked lightly on the brow by a Jap shell splinter: "The Japs can't stand up to an American division on the flat. They cannot take that tremendous fire power." Two days after the jump the Cagayan Valley was U.S. territory - the 11th and 37th had met near the burning nipa huts of Alcala without a Jap soldier in sight...