Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...control." For that he had himself to blame. As Navy Secretary he shared the Navy's mortal fear of unification, joined the admirals in insisting on restriction of the Defense Secretary's authority. After 17 months as Defense Secretary, Jim Forrestal saw it all in a clearer light. He asked Congress to kick out the word "general" and let him really...
...They entered a small building guarded by a man who looked like a storm trooper. The FBI man put Santa under a klieg light...
...answers, a reporter visited Erni in his whitewashed Lucerne studio. He found the 40-year-old artist working under fluorescent light "because it's steady and constant." Black-browed Hans Erni, who looks like an attenuated Max Schmeling, was knee-deep in machine parts, geometrical constructions, drawings of crystals, and an assortment of scientific instruments, including a Cellophane-wrapped microscope. Because he thinks specialization is harmful, Erni devotes part of each day to studying chemistry, mechanics, biology, zoology and the Greek classics...
...enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop in the cost of living. By reasonableness on both sides, there was the prospect and the possibility that the great American boom could be leveled off on a high plateau, broad enough to bear the weight of the burdens that the U.S. had assumed during...
About an hour after midnight the U-47 was within 3,200 yards of two battleships at anchor. The submarine was only 650 feet offshore; it was "disgustingly light." The torpedoes were fired, the submarine swung about and a torpedo fired from the stern tubes. After three minutes there was a loud explosion, followed by thundering columns of water and then by columns of fire. The harbor sprang into life. The destroyers in the anchorage were lit up. Cars sped along the highway. Directly opposite the submarine, a car stopped, turned around, and raced back toward town. Thinking the driver...