Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rationale. In Elberton, Ga., Judge C. B. Thornton asked a groom what bride's name he should write on the marriage license. Said the groom: "Leave that blank. . . . I heard that licenses were going to be rationed. . . . I'm courting two women and I don't know...
Knows-Smells. In Pryor, Mont., a marriage license was issued to Owen Smells and Mary Knows.
License Plates to Wing Ribs. Two years ago Billy began brooding over two wasteful facts about aluminum production: 1) about 20% of his sheet was regularly rejected because of minor blemishes that, when cropped, left the sheet less than standard size; 2) at least 30% of the approved sheet became...
Billy stumped the country for parts orders. By the time he got his first big one - for wing ribs for Curtiss P-40s - he had found enough unused machinery to handle it: mechanical presses that used to make auto fenders, shears that used to stamp out license plates at Kentucky...
The Solution. McWilliams' solution is as simple and drastic as a bog-oak shillelagh, as controversial as a Donnybrook Fair. "The nation now possesses," he says, ". . . the will and the physical unity and the power to achieve what it should have achieved 50 years ago-total democracy in the...