Word: neatest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Island's Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. performed the neatest reconversion trick of the week. It went into production of a brand-new commercial product: an aluminum canoe. Designed by President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks...
...wartime totals, would be content for long with 15%. But there was no law against hoping; Administration analysts hoped that by spring U.S. production-and profits-would be big enough to give a Boost to wages without a lift of prices. If done, it would be the neatest economic trick of the millennium...
...with grenades and ammunition belts, demanded my pass. I had none, but fished out my typewritten permit to eat at the British officers' mess in Trieste. The Yugoslav examined it carefully for about 30 seconds, broke into a black-toothed grin, said the equivalent of okay, snapped the neatest salute I have ever seen, and waved...
...Skelton, his usual fumbling self, plays a song writer who leaves Tin Pan Alley for the life of a freshman at an exclusive girls college in order to keep up with his bride, lovely Esther Williams, who gets our vote as the neatest college instructor of the year. Villain Basil Rathbone tries desperately to break up the marriage but finds himself doing geometry and history assignments instead...
...convention had been in uninterrupted session for six and a half hours. At the outer gates, galleryites were beginning to arrive for the night session. Up to the microphone stepped Chairman Sam Jackson to pull the neatest parliamentary trick of the convention. He announced that Ballot II would be taken immediately, and that, since there was no recess, the convention was still in afternoon session and no tickets for the night meeting would be honored. Even at this late date the bosses were taking no chances on getting a Wallace gallery...