Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luck and the Orders. A hit from the start, the Airacobra pulled Bell Aircraft from an experimental laboratory to a production plant almost as fast as it rockets through the sky. The U.S. Army ordered 13, then 80, then thousands. The British ordered 200, then 800. Meanwhile Larry got orders for thousands of machine-gun adapters, hundreds of Flying Fortress fuselage parts. To handle this whirlwind of business, Bell Aircraft expanded again & again, built another large plant, boosted employment from 60 to over 10,000. Result: squadrons of Bell Airacobras now fight in Britain, Australia and Russia, have knocked down...
...also included a sprinkling of first-rate professionals down on their luck, a number of talented unknowns like Negro Novelist Richard Wright, whose first book, Uncle Tom's Children, won a $500 prize from Story Magazine. Writers received prevailing WPA wages, averaging $93 a month in northern cities, $85 elsewhere...
Just plain hard luck defeated the Crimson sextet in their contest with St. Paul's. The loss snapped the Jayvees' six game winning streak and gave the prepsters a clean sweep over all of the Big Three sextets. Hard hit by the manpower shortage, Harvard's skeleton squad fought their opponents to a standstill, but were overcome by fluke shots that somehow found their way into the net. St. Paul's well-balanced sextet built up an early 2-1 lead and held their ratio of superiority throughout...
...Superstition comes from ignorance or fear. . . . During wartime superstition leaps sky-high in popularity. During danger periods, medals receive attention all out of proportion to their value. So the service men are being weighed down with medals and good luck charms (too often put in the same class). Department stores are advertising 'St. Christopher Good Luck Pieces.' And non-Catholics are being 'converted' to the phony brand of faith that says: 'Wear this medal and nothing can happen...
...grace, you are not pleasing to Him . . . though you be wearing more medals than Goring. . . . Wouldn't it be better for many drivers to drive well and carefully and not depend so much on overworked St. Christopher? God still runs His world; it's not run by luck or charms. . . . Wear medals? Sure, but understand them. Put first things first...