Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week WPB, hustling to make up for lost time, gave the automen another leg up. It handed out high priorities so that they can build $35,000,000 in new plants, spend another $45,000,000 for rehabilitation of tools. This will give them room to assemble cars, or do war work that will still occupy auto plants...
...total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...
...Twist. In Chicago, experimenting with some new jujitsu holds, Joseph Dwyer and Harry Stevens simultaneously broke each other's right leg...
...Aubrey Holland was a medical aid man with the Fifth Army in Italy. During the bloody crossing of the Rapido River, while he was helping the wounded, he was badly hurt himself. The fighting rolled on and Holland lay unattended on the river bank with a shattered arm and leg. He lay there for four days. When medics finally got to him, his feet and one hand were frozen. Doctors amputated both his legs...
...Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Co. has 6,362 veterans with medical discharges on its payrolls. Westinghouse discovered that 83% of the jobs in some of its manufacturing divisions can be performed by men with one eye. 82% by deaf men, 19% by men with only one leg, and 17% by men on crutches...