Word: making
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualified expert in this study of the shields, crests and supporters that accompanied the patents of nobility won by outstanding men of yesterday for outstanding deeds. After talking to him, Samstag got the idea that the ancient science of heraldry could be used to symbolize the many groups that make up the readership of TIME. The result, after much work by the Promotion Department, was a 28-page, 19 by 24 inch book titled The TIME Audience in Heraldry. In it were 16 shields, of which six are reproduced below, symbolizing the arms that each of these groups of TIME...
...economy was yet in the clear. The auto workers, electrical workers and rubber workers, to say nothing of John Lewis' coal miners, had been sitting back waiting to see what the board's findings would be. Now that they saw them, they would also have to make up their minds which way to jump. But the nation, only last week facing a strangling strike of 500,000 men in steel, momentarily could breathe a little more easily. It had before it, in the board's report, a comprehensive formula for peace...
Nevertheless, the board told steelmakers and the steel unions to get back to company-by-company bargaining. They would have to make a start in that direction, in fact, when they negotiated pension and insurance terms...
Sometimes Frankie's girl friend Molly could make things bearable for him. She was a hustler who lived in the same cheap rabbit warren of a rooming house, earned her living in saloons where she got a percentage on the drinks her customers bought. But there were times when even Molly's affection failed to shore him up. Then his sense of guilt became, in his dreams, a 35-lb. monkey that he lugged around on his back. In the Army, morphine had eased the pain from a piece of shrapnel in his liver. Afterwards, Frankie took...
...tools of trade he also got forged identification papers, a supply of Reichsmarks, ration stamps, sandwiches, a revolver, compass and a cyanide tablet. His assignment: to travel 400 kilometers in a broad, jagged semicircle behind the enemy's lines, find where two "missing" German divisions were stationed and make his way back to the Americans...