Word: layman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accurate is Fahey's mental picture of Navy equipment that in reading an appropriations bill he may spot not merely additions to the Fleet, but small changes in ships in service. From a sheet of figures, where an ordinary layman detects only digits, he comes up with funnels, torpedo tubes, extra speed, six new submarines, degaussing gear, winches. But this strange genius takes no notes. His filing system is all between the ears...
...plate. This has upped plate capacity by more than half, from 8,400,000 tons to 13,200,000 tons. Plate has been and still is the worst bottleneck in the industry, for nearly 75% of the steel needed for ships is plate. > But many a layman overestimates the amount of steel needed in shipbuilding. A 10,000-ton vessel actually weighs about 4,000 tons—the 10,000-ton figure is its carrying capacity. The 8,000,000 tons of merchant shipping the U.S. hopes to build this year will take up less than 3,500,000 tons...
...years huge Lever Bros. (Swan Spry, Rinso, Lux, Lifebuoy, etc.) and huger Procter & Gamble (Ivory, Crisco, Oxydol, etc.) have slugged at each other in the nice-Nellie manner of the advertising campaign—with occasional forays that were not so nice, but not so noticeable to the layman, either. Now the battle has exploded in a big way: in Boston a Federal grand jury indicted Procter & Gamble for using the mails to defraud. By the terms of a 57-page, 40-count indictment this turns out to mean bribing various Lever Bros, employes with aliases like "Babe," "Red" and "Chick...
Tobe's business, which he likes to describe as "the removal of electrical garbage" (noise suppressers to the layman) was never able to support drinking fountains in its old red-brick factory until war came along. Now it's terrific—and a prime example of how a little businessman with unbridled enthusiasm and pixie screwball-ishness can capitalize 14 years of struggle and adversity to make himself invaluable to the war effort...
...average layman would probably be skeptical about the practicality of the Peabody, yet the facts show that such doubts would be unfounded. In peacetime, for example, the bone laboratories in the Museum are often asked by the police to examine skulls for possible cases of homicide. In wartime, the anthropologist has even greater usefulness, for it is up to his research and his statistics to determine what should be the size of a machine-gun turret so as to fit the greatest number of soldiers and to draw up dimensions for uniforms to clothe the average draftee. And what...