Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pull-Out. In his battered felt good-luck hat (he puts it on first thing in the morning, takes it off at bedtime), Riebel moved ponderously through the four Brewster plants (two in Long Island City, one in Newark, one in Johnsville, Pa.), shaking hands, telling everyone: "Call me Skippy." At first suspicious, workers soon got a kick out of calling the boss Skippy, got a bigger kick after he installed a huge new cafeteria in the final assembly plant at Johnsville, organized baseball teams, wangled the Government housing project for Johnsville. To get production on bombers, he balanced...
Nobody knows how men began to talk, but plenty of scholars have advanced strangely nicknamed theories about it. Last week an eminent psychologist, Edward Lee Thorndike of Columbia University, entered his "babble-babble" (or "babble-luck") thesis in the competition...
Professor Thorndike acknowledges that under his "babble-luck" system hundreds of different languages could have developed among primitive men. He thinks that is exactly what happened...
...Eighth Air Force paid their first visit to the Ruhr. They found and destroyed the carefully camouflaged plant at Hüls where the Germans manufactured a fifth of their synthetic rubber. On other days they flew into northeastern Germany and into Occupied France, had weather trouble and less luck with their ground targets. But against their secondary target, they had better luck: in two great air battles over Germany they reduced the German fighter force by nearly 100 planes...
...wound up with a lurching thud against the far side of a deep ditch, just short of the highway. No one shouted or said a word. With thick, fumbling fingers we unlatched the safety belts. General Lee slumped forward, dazed and winded. It was his luck to be the only one knocked out. Most of our passengers scrambled out into the battle, left one officer and me to drag wiry, 48-year-old General Lee out on to the ground. A young paratrooper came by, stared in awe at the wreck, then laughed and said: "Jeez! You must have guts...