Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wines & Silver. The war cut the Latin republics from their normal source of manufactured goods, taught them to trade among themselves. In shop windows along Havana's Calle San Rafael appeared Mexican silver, Argentine pocketbooks, Chilean wines. Today, Argentina's chief supplier is no longer Britain but Brazil. Three Chilean companies now export more bananas from Ecuador to Chile than United Fruit ships...
...confused with other G.I. additions to the language; e.g., snafu (situation normal, all fouled up), janfu (joint Army-Navy foul-up), fubar (fouled up beyond all recognition...
Rested Trees. The trees, untapped by the Japs for years, were ready to ooze latex far faster than they normally did. But production will be comparatively small until the managers of the big estates, who were chased out or imprisoned by the Japs, return. There were 1,400 in Malaya before the war. Now there are only 120. Many are still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal...
...psychologists, making good use of a rare opportunity for laboratory study of normal, intelligent men, believe that the method they developed for appraising candidates could be usefully applied to candidates for responsible; social and administrative jobs. Possible applications: Annapolis and West Point candidates, State Department career men, foreign representatives of business firms...
...pharmacy a dying trade? Last week the American Druggist, totting up the evidence, said gloomily: well, unless something happens-. About 14% of the nation's 75,000 practicing pharmacists are over 65. During the past four years, less than half the normal number of pharmacy students have graduated. Of the 10,000 licensed druggists in the armed forces, 2,000 will never return to civilian mortars and pestles. One trouble: the rise of the glittering emporium-type drugstores and the fact that pharmacists have to double ingloriously as sandwich cutters and alarm-clock salesmen...