Word: mock
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every plane in operation there is a successor in the works incorporating the knowledge gained in combat around the world. The Flying Fortress' successor will have even greater bomb capacity, fire power, range and speed. > The trend is toward ever bigger bombers. On display was a mock-up (wooden dummy) of a bomber capable of carrying far larger bombs than Britain's present four-ton blockbusters...
...mock Tokyo, traders on the New York Stock Exchange put on another show of confidence, last week boosted stocks to new highs for the year. Typical gains: American Airlines 5⅛ points, Chrysler 1¾, Du Pont 4½, Monsanto Chemical 3⅜, Norfolk & Western 6⅜, U.S. Steel...
Wells & Bel Geddes. Beyond Tri-Tactics real war-games buffs sail into the blue of their own inventions. As long ago as 1914 H. G. Wells, in Little Wars, told how he and his friends had played with toy cannon, soldiers, houses and mock terrain, a play war of "brisk little battles." In 1917 Hudson Maxim, the inventor and explosives expert, revealed with some disgust that he had been forced to redesign his own war game to include the new factor of airpower. A New Yorker profile of Norman Bel Geddes in 1941 noted...
...Harvard, which once (1936) had 1,500 law students, now has 193. Eleven of its 25 teachers, including OCD Director Dean James M. Landis, are in war work. The Law School has canceled the finals of its famed Ames (mock trial) Competition, closed its Legal Aid Bureau, surrendered two of its four buildings to the Army & Navy...
Last year United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, together, with Judge Harrie B. Chase of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Calvert Magruder of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the First Circuit presided over the mock case of Columbia Broadcasting System vs. Federal Communications Commission...