Word: platee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
...annual $100-a-plate Jackson Day dinner (terrapin soup, breast of capon, burgundy), speakers and audience also took it for granted that Franklin D. Roosevelt is the only Democrat who can win in 1944. Second place on the ticket was the only puzzle. Friends of Paul McNutt moved energetically among the guests. The stock of House Speaker Sam Rayburn (who spoke in the President's regular spot at Jack son Day dinners) went up perceptibly. But by the time Vice President Henry Wallace rose to affirm that the "ageless" New Deal was far from dead, big & little Democrats were...
...Lose. When Louella goes to the races, she makes sure of a happy afternoon by betting on every horse that starts. At her generous buffets she never bothers to fill her own plate, but wanders among her guests, helping herself from anybody's plate that comes handy. In gossip-gathering she uses the same techniques. The men who run the studios and hand out the jobs read her faithfully and as faithfully react. (One screen writer who managed to get mentioned three times in Louella's column found himself abruptly raised from $500 a week...
...mansion was unharmed. Longer than a city block, built in 1746, it is a fabulous place. It has 1,000 windows, 365 rooms. In days gone by it was not unusual for 200 guests to sit to a dinner served on gold plate. Queen Victoria, a guest, remarked that it was too extravagant for her. Other royal guests included King George V, King Edward VIII, King George VI. The house was so vast that, the story goes, guests were given packets of wafers to strew along the corridors showing the way back to their rooms. A guest once rang...
N.A.M.'s second biggest news was much better publicized, much less puzzling, much less painful to those same ears. It came from the keynoter at N.A.M.'s usual $10 blue-plate windup banquet (grapefruit, mock turtle soup, roast turkey and cranberries, sherbet and petits fours-no butter), the man who makes policy for the world's biggest manufacturer: General Motors' Alfred Pritchard Sloan...