Word: pets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Holcomb's left-handed crack at the Army's small-arms pet did not stir up again the controversy of last spring (TIME, May 6) in which the authoritative National Rifle Association panned the Garand as an inaccurate shooting piece, given to overheating, hard to maintain. But his mild remarks disclosed that the Marine Corps was doing some rifle shopping on its own account, had already given a preliminary look at a new semi-automatic put out by Winchester Repeating Arms Co. (which is now making Garands under Government contract). This week the new Winchester was ready...
...designs developed. These they standardized and limited to a few models for mass production by four main companies-Junkers, Dornier, Heinkel, Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (Messerschmitt). Standardization and mass production are Erhard Milch's passions, right down to his fliers' toothbrushes. The Junkers 87 dive bomber is his special pet. Udet got the idea for it from the U. S. Navy...
...Thorpe. Sea Hawk Thorpe begins his career by a swashbuckling attack on a Spanish man-o'-war, carrying King Philip's ambassador (Claude Rains) and his proud niece (Brenda Marshall). To appease Queen Bess (Flora Robson) for this shocking violation of neutrality, Hawk Thorpe gives her a pet monkey and some soft words, sets out to replenish her treasury and hamstring King Philip by hijacking the Spanish gold train in Panama...
...took the full weight of this evidence to persuade gun-shy businessmen that business really was better. There were still two wide rivers to cross. Their pet barometer, the stockmarket, was still flat on its back, had scarcely twitched since its recovery from the Blitzkrieg Collapse (TIME, June 3). And businessmen could not down the fear that taxes would rise faster than profits, convert the Defense Boom to a profitless prosperity...
...mean quackery and cultism-high colonic irrigations, spine juggling, nudist colonies. Actually, physiotherapy is an ancient and honorable art which uses such natural methods as heat, massage and exercise to invigorate the body, relieve pain. Though most of its practitioners are laymen, physiotherapy is a special pet of the American Medical Association. Last week, for the umpteenth time, the Journal of the A. M. A. begged doctors to wrest this lucrative and valuable specialty from the hands of the quacks...