Word: queue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian plane on to a British airfield under a grey, damp sky. He wore a padded suit and flying helmet. The giant four-engine bomber was, according to an R.A.F. officer, an "eye opener." The crew was so numerous that those on the ground began wondering when the queue of men jumping from the plane would end. The crew immediately formed two ranks and, at the word of command, donned overalls and began servicing the craft. They explained that this invariable practice of Russian flying crews on landing made sure their plane was ready for further action immediately. Though...
...long queue of determined-looking women clumped up & down before a Detroit Federal housing project. Their placard read: "We want White Neighbors." Some 500 of their men gathered purposefully on the east side of Ryan Rd., the border line between white & black neighborhoods...
...Iraq to study a rail route for aid-to-Russia. This route, the eastern end of Kaiser Wilhelm's old Berlin-to-Bagdad dream, would require 100 miles of track, 4,500 freight cars, 200 locomotives, push U.S. railroads' equipment orders still farther back in the priorities queue...
...Washington's new magic word, was about to replace priorities in earnest (TIME. Oct. 6). Theoretically, this meant that civilian industries starving for lack of scarce materials could expect a fairer shake, that Army and Navy must also submit to allocation, instead of hogging the head of the queue. Said Nelson Deputy Albert J. Browning last week, "Some proportion of critical materials [must be] set aside for general civilian...
...SPAB has yet to define allocation in the sense of ranking allocatees. Army and Navy, who use copper in a way most businessmen would consider lavish, still hogged the head of the queue last week. No plans for supplying a minimum civilian economy had been formulated. With incomplete statistics on inventories the true dimensions and use of the existing copper supply were still unknown. Around the corner loomed another possible claimant for first place in the queue: plant expansion. Above all, SPAB had no technique (such as World War I's industry committees) for the execution of its allocations...