Word: oaken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sanctum Lobby. No two of these are alike, the Poonsters are told. Not all of the relics are imported, however. The walls are littered with drawings by F. G. Attwood, James Montgomery Flagg, Gluyas Williams, Larz Anderson, and other ex-editors. Their carved signatures may be read in the oaken dining table...
...distillers were still romping outside the defense corral, he put his ideas on paper, sent them to President Roosevelt, his good friend Treasury Secretary Morgenthau, his many distilling pals. Main points of the report: 1) by re-using containers (now restricted by law) the industry could save 500,000 oaken barrels, 700,000,000 bottles, 20,000,000 paperboard cases annually. 2) With the "thin slop" now thrown away, the industry could feed vitamin B2 to millions of cattle. 3) If needed, the industry could switch 75,000,000 of its 435,000,000-gallon capacity to industrial alcohol...
...gilding from the eloquence of Winston Churchill. Military Historian Liddell Hart, whose theories of defensive warfare were blasted by Adolf Hitler's Blitzkrieg tactics, broke his recent silence long enough to remark that the British people's hearts of oak were being betrayed by their leaders' oaken heads...
...destruction of the Guildhall, medieval town hall of London where for six centuries the great and illustrious have been honored with pageantry and much of the history of the British Empire has been made. Within the charred shell of its Gothic walls black-faced workmen pried under massive oaken beams searching for the familiar old figures of Gog and Magog, 14½-foot wooden grotesques who guarded the Guildhall...