Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither of the big engine companies has yet had a chance to start and finish production on an order without interruptions from Washington. Service technicians and desk mechanics continually cook up new gadgets, halt production to get their pet changes made (one company had to make as many as 90 changes on a single engine in a single month). Many such changes make sense. A few are necessary. All delay production. Manufacturers understand that some mid-production alterations in both engines and planes are required. What grinds their gears is that responsible officers in the Army Air Corps...
...horse and buggy to the railroad station in Meriden, Conn., taking along a pistol for the return trip. Never married, she adopted a son, Roland, and a daughter, known to Rosemarians as Bonnie Bell (now Mrs. Jacobus A. J. Van der Bunt Jr.). Famed is her long line of pet black poodles, from Mouf I to Mopsa. Famed also are her activities as a suffragette, as a women's leader in the Council of National Defense in World War I, as a member of the National Democratic Committee, as secretary of the Connecticut convention for repeal of the 18th...
...eagle-crested President's flag. Inside the door, vigorous Mother Sara Delano Roosevelt said to her Canadian visitors: "You must have some hot coffee." At noon the President, keen as a boy with a brand-new bicycle, took the guests to see the apple of his eye, his pet project, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: three stories of fieldstone cottage, in whose 60-odd exhibition rooms and offices are being installed one of the greatest collections of memorabilia and historic junk ever gathered-a collection that ranges from a Russian Tsar's red-felt-lined droshky to Roosevelt...
Before 1934, New York City's municipal hospitals were not model institutions. Ward leaders ordered special diets for pet patients, inmates of the City Home on Welfare Island were persuaded to make wills leaving their paltry goods to the superintendent, and at the Farm Colony on Staten Island many employes were habitually drunk...
...joint defense program for the U. S. and Canada, one of Franklin Roosevelt's pet policies, opinion was almost as solidly behind the President as it was against him on a third term. Over 71% of the papers were for a defense agreement with Canada, fewer than 3% were opposed, 26% had taken no stand...