Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next, two telephoning girls broke into a news program to discuss a change in plans, necessitated by the fact that one of their boy friends had walked out in a pet. Segment of the unabashed conversation...
Even the Great Exposition and the Crystal Palace, his father's pet hobby, left Bertie unmoved. "And then, one day, wandering through the tedious immensity of the East India Company's exhibit, he discovered ... a lively group representing the murderous Thugs at their work. He was enchanted." It was almost as shocking as the only other incident that marred the Exposition-the assault on some ladies by a party of Welsh teetotalers...
Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
Tanks. Obvious pet of Chrysler officials is the Chrysler Tank Arsenal (TIME, Jan. 20). They like to cite statistics on its vastness: five city blocks long and two wide . . . six and a half acres of window panes . . . 9,000 heavy machines, tools and fixtures installed . . . "here, just a year ago, stood a corn field." . . . Last week it was a whirring, clanking hive of millers, cutters, pressers and riveters (see cut). Eighty percent of the machines which Chrysler needs to step up its tank-production rate to 15 per day have already been installed. Meanwhile Chrysler has just received...
...scene shifted to the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, the traditional headquarters for Congressional pork-lovers. The headquarters has lately seen lean times; all the fat cuts have gone to the military and naval committees. Moodily the committee contemplated a project of which it is suspicious: the President's pet, the $285,000,000 St. Lawrence Seaway. The committee had stalled, still was far from a decision. Then the President suddenly wrote a friendly letter to Chairman Joseph Jefferson Mansfield, saying he would not oppose including the Seaway in an omnibus appropriation bill. This was the signal the wolves were...