Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...predecessor." Already science offered wool from silk and silk from coal, plywoods, plastics, rustless steels, fire-resistant wood, synthetic finishes, bendable glass, luminous paint, two-way private radio, furniture derived from air, water and coal, shoe soles of impregnated carpeting, fluorescent lighting, packaged houses, television, autogiros, decentralized cities, lightweight automobiles and locomotives, air express, new chemicals, new medical discoveries so revolutionary that they offered a saving of human life greater than the sum of human life lost...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...
Gordon's unit consists of plastic envelopes of assorted sizes and a lightweight portable black light lamp which can be placed on the navigator's table or worn like a miner's lamp. The envelopes are made of orange-red fluorescent-treated transparent plastic. The lamp may be the four-watt, 24-28-volt black light already standard with both the Army & Navy. When the lamp is held five inches above an envelope, the latter's fluorescent surface steps up the short ultraviolet waves enough to make them visible, not enough to destroy eye adaptation...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...
With appropriate fanfare the State Department last week announced a six-point agreement with Mexico to aid in rehabilitating her dilapidated railroad system. Consisting of some 15,000 miles of mostly lightweight rails, and largely built in the 19th Century, this system has long looked like a joke to U.S. railroaders. It can no longer be so regarded...