Word: pail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British food experts are already invading Washington with suggestions on how to get the most nutrition into the least space. Chief recipient of these suggestions is the Department of Agriculture's Surplus Marketing Administration. Originally a mere pail to catch U. S. surpluses and distribute them (via stamp plans, etc.) to reliefers, SMA has now become an agency whose client, though a reliefer, is so important to the U. S. that it may change the whole character of U. S. farming...
...three o'clock. They lapped milk from a dish in imitation of the orphanage dogs, whose company they preferred to other children's. They craved raw meat, and Kamala was once caught devouring chicken entrails which her sensitive wolf-nose had located in a garbage pail. For months they could not walk upright; their muscles were powerfully developed for loping on all fours...
...last week a familiar spectre of the U. S. countryside had thrown off his shroud, picked up his dinner pail, gone back to work. The ghost town was coming to life. Field representatives of the Defense Advisory Commission, notebooks in hand, scurried through cobwebby, long-idle factories in Ohio and Illinois, dying mining and industrial towns in western Pennsylvania. Engineer Morris Llewellyn Cooke, a lieutenant of Commissioner Sidney Hillman, released to manufacturers a report of facilities available to 15 ghost towns. He planned to farm out defense contracts (Britain's "bits & pieces" system) to these "shutdown areas," thereby spreading...
Author Lyle foresaw "that Germany would try to become self-sufficient in order to head off the effects of a blockade in World War II. "Close scientific tab was kept on every garbage pail. War substitutes . . . were continued. . . ." Other Lyle predictions: ^ German mastery of the art of propaganda...
...Elected Dean of Yale's Law School was Ashbel ("Pail"-from ashpail) Green Gulliver. Of Dean Gulliver's three immediate predecessors, two (Thomas Walter Swan and Charles Edward Clark) are now judges of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the third (Robert Maynard Hutchins) is president of University of Chicago. Under them, Yale's Law School rose to top rank, today vies with Harvard's for the distinction of being the most illustrious law school...