Word: mat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, jovial Howard Bruce was director of matériel for the Army Service Forces in 1944-45, was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his work in "developing and managing the greatest military procurement program in history." He was a Democratic national committeeman from Maryland for 14 years, lives with his wife in Elkridge, a Baltimore suburb...
Next day, with a lump on his ankle as big as a doorknob, heavy-set Henry Wittenberg warily circled a stringy young opponent, suddenly ankle-dragged him to the mat, and nailed him in 6:03. He won two more bouts by falls (in one, he accidentally broke his opponent's leg). In winning the final bout by a decision, against Minnesota's Verne Gagne, Wittenberg got his only black mark...
Hundreds of Hawaiians lined Honolulu's Waikiki Beach one day last week to say goodbye to the famed old liner Mat-sonia. As the ship passed, on her last voyage to the mainland, a few sentimental spectators wept. One of Hawaii's most popular links with the mainland, she was headed for San Francisco and the auction block. In her place this week was a younger (1932) Matson ship, the 18,163-ton Lurline, making her first commercial postwar trip to the Islands...
...booth after booth, shapely models were mechanically whacked, pounded and rolled about. Among the exhibits: a coin-operated (50?), bedlike "Massage-O-Mat" for pummeling the body; a "Mac-Levy Leg Massager" for streamlining legs and thighs; chairs called "Gyro-Lators," with vibrating cushions and foot rests to slim down hips and titillate the soles of the feet. The beauticians had a deep interest in the new machines. They needed some tasty bait to get back the business they had lost through a revolution in the trade...
...welcome mat for U.S. businessmen was put out by Bizonia last week. The Joint Export-Import Agency, which directs foreign trade for the U.S.-British occupation economy, upped the period foreign businessmen are allowed to stay from 15 to 30 days during any six-month period. It also promised them comfortable hotels, good food, taxis, and help in bartering with the Germans. The businessmen can send in food and raw materials in return for finished or semi-manufactured goods...