Word: midget
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Those khaki shorts worn by WARREN BARTHG must have been made for a midget and if you knew the size of WARREN you'd wonder how he ever got into them and much less bend over . . . I thought I'd spilt when he did the jumping Jack routine. . . he almost...
...Willys he borrowed fresh capital, rebuilt his dealer organization. In 1939, Willys lost $1,862,232, in 1940 another $873,115. Then, when Army Quartermaster Corps cast about for a midget reconnaissance car, Joe Frazer saw his chance to cash in on Willys' small-car making. By sweating his engineers and production men Joe Frazer soon had the joy of seeing the Willys car became the Army standard jeep...
J.A.s dug up war work. In Chicago last week the Midget Manufacturing Co. was hacking away at an Army contract for 150,000 pants hangers. In Cleveland four J.A. companies are turning out 10,000 foundry wedges for aircraft parts every week; in New Jersey a J.A. pool (which includes the Intricate Trinkets Co.) is making shipping blocks to protect aircraft pumps in transit. And in Pittsburgh the Sesame Specialty Co. (all girls) is looking for foreign business: they have an incendiary bomb blanket already approved by the U.S. Bureau of Mines...
Captain Ross F. Jones recently returned from Miami Beach, where he assisted in the selection of Class 8-43, a "midget" class, for it will be composed of less than 100 members. The Officer Candidates will take over Mellon Hall today, April 16. In order to justify their temporary reduction in size, we shall expect 100 per cent in graduation. The entire military and civilian staff of the Statistical School joins in saying "Welcome" to the Officer Candidates, and trust that their stay will prove a happy and beneficial...
...engaging. And Dubliners are proud to have a Nobel prizewinner living among them.† But what especially appeals to the Irish is Schrödinger's study of Gaelic, Irish music and Celtic design, his hobby of making tiny doll-house furniture with textiles woven on a midget Irish loom-and, above all, his preference for a professorship at the Dublin Advanced Studies Institute to one at Oxford...