Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Center's board of directors includes two social psychologists, Princeton's Professor Hadley Cantril and Harvard's Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo Roper, conductor of the FORTUNE Poll...
Battle Stations. Late on the third day out the wind made up and North Carolina rolled gently through a rising sea that whipped plumes of spindrift over her lean sides and wet down the main deck. The light was fading and the moon hung low in the west when a score of newsmen (including Reserve Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell) leaned against the wind and made their way forward to grandstand seats in the bow. Except for a few lights on her foremast, North Carolina was dark, as she and her destroyer escorts had been every night. But inside...
Better than that, it had been in production two full months. In the crowded yard alongside the speaker's stand stood scores of lean camouflaged pursuit planes and potbellied observation planes (O-528). Close by stood the 2,000th fighter produced by Curtiss-Wright since the war began...
Next day the scene shifted to the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, the traditional headquarters for Congressional pork-lovers. The headquarters has lately seen lean times; all the fat cuts have gone to the military and naval committees. Moodily the committee contemplated a project of which it is suspicious: the President's pet, the $285,000,000 St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal...
...addition to being undermanned, industry was also underequipped. Because of the lean depression years . . . the defense production era of the 1940s found a high degree of obsolescence in American industry...