Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Lang got ?15,000 (peacetime equivalent of $75,000) a year, most of which went in income taxes and upkeep of the vast medieval pile of Lambeth Palace which the Nazis blitzed last year. In his resignation speech the Archbishop referred to his "sudden withdrawal to some obscure place ... to face ... the restraints and inconveniences of very slender means." Leftist papers tartly said they thought his ?1,500 pension was more than that...
...storm was wheezing out toward the Atlantic, it added one more to its total of twelve victims. In Brooklyn, N.Y., it toppled a cornice from a limestone front, buried a Miss Essie Stone, 55, under a pile of lethal debris...
After Dec. 7 nearly the whole pile of savings had been spread, widely and with studied recklessness, on the table: 200 planes over Pearl Harbor, scores of transports off Malaya, 200,000 men thrown at Luzon, oil burned up in submarine raids off California, shells pumped onto Guam, Wake and Midway, artillery squandered at Hong Kong, shrapnel consumed in a new Chinese offensive, cruisers risked in an attack on Sarawak, precious bombs dropped on Sumatra and Burma-a total bet of nearly all Japan's power. At best Japan stood to lose far more than she could replace soon...
...cars this month before they close down. Since this is double the January quota set a month ago, it made the manufacturers feel pretty chipper. Washington did not. Only reason for any automobiles at all in January is that the automakers jiggled the priorities-allocations machinery artfully enough to pile up $213,000,000 in finished and semi-finished parts. None of these parts can be used in war work, so Washington ruefully okayed the quota boost. This will use up $100,000,000 worth of parts; the balance will be put away for spares...
...Longfellow in 1864, many a doubt would come to the U.S. as it celebrated Christmas of 1941. Nevertheless, parents would work late into the night trimming the trees until the branches dripped tinsel, stars, iridescent glass balls, red-cotton Santa Clauses, the old-fashioned popcorn strands. They would pile presents underneath, wrapped in cellophane and tissue paper, tied with ribbons and bows...