Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...
...musical composition of 1940." On the other hand, Haggin of the "Nation" dubbed it fluent nonsense, so you can take your choice. Whatever its ultimate musical value, it is well worth hearing, and probably easier to grasp at first listening than the Brahms. The Quintet is, on the whole, lighter and less tense than its predecessor, the Fifth Symphony, and it is laced with the familiar Shostakovitch devices of modal harmony, folk melody, and unusual percussive effects. The performers are members of Dr. Koussevitsky's faculty at Tanglewood, with Malcolm Holmes of Pierian fame playing one violin and Sanroma...
...British tank forces to shreds. These guns should have been no surprise; they are standard German equipment. But Rommel massed them in unprecedented numbers, towed some in conventional fashion, mounted others in self-propelled units. In last year's Libyan campaign, the British confounded Rommel with their lighter, but then effective, 25-pounders. He took the lesson to heart, this year outdid the British in their own anti-tank tactics...
...Magnesium-one-third lighter than aluminum-can now become a primary aeronautical material, rivaling aluminum and competing with stainless steel (TIME, June 22), instead of remaining a secondary metal used only in engine parts, wheels, accessories...
...lower berth, one in an upper.* The Army now gets 28 Pullmans for each coach. The War Department's Services of Supply gives other reasons than comfort for preferring Pullman travel: 1) when troops move at night by sleeper, nobody is the wiser; 2) civilian rail traffic is lighter at night and trains make better time...