Word: papered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Twists. In Pentagon thinking, the new need is for a lean, fully airborne, highly flexible but fully coordinated unit-capable of rapierlike attack, swift dispersal, and bludgeon riposte under any conditions. On paper, the new 101st seems to fit the bill. With a complement of 11,486 men, it is approximately one-third smaller than its two older sisters (the 82nd at Fort Bragg, the 11th at Augsburg, Germany). But it is in its mobility and organization that the 101st provides its novelties...
...nation's basic industries were setting a fast pace. Pulp and paper manufacturers reported their August production at 104% of rated capacity; steelmakers were behind in their orders, and auto sales were outstripping last year's banner records. Investors in Ontario's Blind River area were getting ready to enjoy a return from some $200 million of risk capital; a dozen new uranium mines were scheduled for production this year. In the West, farmers were hauling in record crops of oats and barley, and harvesting another good wheat crop. Farm cash income for the first six months...
Stauffer's buy gave him a monopoly in the state capital as well as the surrounding region's only morning paper, the Topeka Daily Capital (circ. 64,304), which since 1941 has shared presses, quarters and business departments with Stauffer's own Topeka afternoon paper, the State Journal (circ. 23,471). Also in the package: another daily, the Kansas City Kansan (circ. 29,583), six farm periodicals, two national magazines, Capper's Farmer (circ. 1,462,513) and Household (circ. 2,578,797), plus Topeka's radio and TV station WIBW and Kansas City...
...Shepherd's main weapon against the "day people" was a wacky, stream-of-consciousness monologue, e.g., discussing the vital role of the "Flexible Flyer sled in the U.S. cultural renaissance," the difficulties of explaining Coney Island to a scientist from Venus, the socio-anthropological facts behind wearing paper hats at parties...
...book-as is evident from Biographer Ervine's memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract in one hand and a White Paper in the other, while she balanced on his lap like an entranced houri...