Word: light
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France. Set in rapid motion by the crisis, he "dipped down" in Britain for a quick check with Whitehall and the Bank of England's headquarters in Thread-needle Street, arrived in the U.S. unshaven and with his old school tie (Eton's black with narrow light blue stripes) holding up his pants (see cut). Not even the Old Etonian belt could disguise the fact that this flurried arrival departed from the tradition of the British Treasury and the Bank of England. Ties as belts were not normal Threadneedle wear. Britain's financial pants...
...were led down a hazardous set of 20 slippery stairs without hand rails. The sight in the hold was like a charcoal drawing of Inferno. The brilliant sun filtered through grillwork, throwing sharp lines of light and darkness across the refugees' faces and their hot, sweaty, half-naked bodies...
...study of the spectro-photographs showed Struve several faint lines - which did not come from the Companion itself, but from space around it. Using the exact technique of spectroscopy, he proved that the lines were made by light waves characteristic of iron...
...times as wide as the diameter of the sun (865,000 miles). They may be attracted mainly by the powerful gravitation of massive Antares. But they show up on Astronomer Struve's spectroscope because intense ultraviolet rays from the hot, blue Companion make them glow with telltale light...
Dimmer. The Federal Power Commission somberly agreed with a forecast that the U.S. is due for a new electric light and power crisis. The margin between demand and capacity to produce is as narrow as it has ever been. Barely started on the greatest expansion program in its history, the industry expects the "tight squeeze" to last throughout next year and well into...