Word: mortaring
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...asking softly for cooperation; 2) tooling up, a mechanic's phrase used by defense's master mechanic, William S. Knudsen-a period of the drawing board and the lathe, of designing and building tools to make things with, a time of blueprints and bricks-without-mortar, of labor-training schools, of raw materials and schedules; a time of hurry, nerves, urgency, short cuts and of sharp demands for cooperation-or-else; 3) production: when more factories roar, more men go to work, more will be produced than ever before in the world's history-the goal...
...words of his boss, the Admiral, and his boss's boss, the Marshal: wait and trust. "Take courage," the Marshal had said, "and close your ranks about me." Nevertheless, it was hard for the chauffeur and his friends not to put bricks of fact together with the uncertain mortar of rumor, and so build a comforting structure for the future. Last week they heard plenty of talk...
...guarded grounds of the Glenn L. Martin aircraft plant. His guests were newsmen, a few Congressmen and curious Army and Navy officials. He proceeded to show them how safe Glmite was by setting fire to it, shooting a 30/30 bullet through it, firing charges of it from a trench mortar against a steel plate, lob bing a shellful in the direction of his nervous audience - who ducked behind a sandbag barricade. None of this rough treatment incited Mr. Barlow's Glmite to explode...
...Slowly the snow-clogged tanks advanced to the foot of the hill, with only three-fourths of the infantrymen left. A Finnish mortar or anti-tank shell burst twenty yards from the first tank and the Russian soldiers dropped to the ground. The tank seemed disabled, for it stopped. The three other tanks went on a few more yards to some granite boulders at the foot of the hill, then turned and plunged at full speed back to the woods for more...
Fiction. The frontier incident was news to the Finnish Government. Border outposts were telephoned; the only noise reported on the frontier was that of Russian soldiers practicing trench-mortar firing and hand-grenade throwing. President of Finland's National Defense Council Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim toured the border that day and heard of no firing. A Finnish Government spokesman concluded that the entire incident was "completely untrue." At Helsinki the Government had no intention of ordering troops to retire from a frontier fairly jammed with Red Army contingents. To withdraw from back of their fortified line would...