Word: mares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squeeze was on. Without gasoline to burn, the U.S. was getting back on to an older method of locomotion: shanks' mare. In 17 States the gas rationing had already sharply changed the lives of 8,500,000 motorists and the uncounted millions who rode with them. After July 1 the meager rations would probably be made more meager. And some time after July 1 the entire nation would go on rations. The reason was one word: rubber...
Radio is like Walter de la Mare's night-foundered traveler: it is never quite sure just who hears it. But last week radio found out several significant things about its unseen listeners...
...small corporation near New London promptly became one of the most important firms in the U.S. The Electric Boat Co., on the Thames River at Groton, Conn., has almost a monopoly of U.S. sub-building know-how. Only other U.S. sub-builders are two Navy yards (Portsmouth, N.H. and Mare Island, Calif.) and a new private venture at Manitowoc, Wis. Even the Manitowoc yard is staffed and supervised (not owned) by Electric Boat Co., and its product is Ebco-guaranteed. All three rival yards combined have fewer ways, less equipment than Ebco. Ebco got started in 1899 when it took...
...Back Room Will Have, the show has been given a special musical score, some vaudeville trimmings, considerable entr'activity. A good-looking girl in a slinky dress perches for the evening atop a piano, and between scenes, leads the boys in such old favorites as The Old Gray Mare, The Bowery...
...value of sea power with the pat chapter title "Mahan Was Wrongl," but until he brings facts rather than sarcasm to bear on the Admiral's theory, control of the sea lanes will still have a certain appeal to warring powers and the Mediterranean will still be a difficult "mare nostrum" in which to maintain lines of communication...