Word: pie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advent of an NBC program called What's New. Put on by Old Gold over Manhattan's WJZ, What's New sizzled the air waves with its rhythms under the direction of Benny Goodman. Before he retired to the Mayo clinic last year with sciatica, his pie-eyed pipings were used to persuade youths to switch to Camels...
...automotive industry). Mr. Reuther had probably overstated the immediate adaptability of automobile plant machin ery, the possibility of "500 planes a day" any time soon. Many motormakers undoubtedly underestimated their own potentialities, hung back from the sacrifices that would be required. Aircraft manufacturers wanted to keep as much defense pie for themselves as possible, even if the cutting were somewhat delayed. Labor was jealous, suspicious of them all. Caught between the lot of them was Commissioner Knudsen, whose burdens include the legend that he is a superman. Hardest fact of all to see was the certainty that the automobile industry...
...GIANT JOSHUA-Maurine Whip-pie-Houghton, Mifflin...
...children themselves none of this was as important as the prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
...Dapper, slick Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, cordially disliked by the New Deal. When Chip's prosperous Atlanta contracting firm, Robert & Co., grabbed off one juicy segment after another of the defense pie, enemies effected his ousting from the secretaryship of the National Democratic Party...