Word: poplar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he joined the air corps two years ago, Dicks Bong helped his father with oat and potato crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...
...last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost 35% of its employes). Unless WPB soon eases its restrictions, most undertakers will have to go back to the Middle Ages technique, wrap their customers in shrouds...
...star boarder at Washington's famed Walter Reed Hospital, a tall, spare, silvered man with a back straight as a poplar, wrote to the President...
Trip 21 gave a lurch. Behind her in the rain swirled the twigs of a tall poplar. The cabin lights went out. She hurtled through spiked pines, bursting her guts horribly, flumped to the ground. There she roared at death and lay still. Then from her twisted frame, from the red Georgia earth where they had been thrown, her survivors began to shout, first to each other, then for help...
...significant report was made by the mayor of Poplar. This Blitzed London borough had 23,000 buildings at break of war. Thus far 14,000 of them have been damaged, but 10,000 battered houses have again been made habitable. Two thousand have been officially condemned as unlivable and another two thousand already have been cleared away by the demolition squads...