Word: quickers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stencil that fits over fingernails for quicker, neater nail tinting...
...difficult operation was reported last week by Manhattan's Mt. Sinai Hospital. It was the first use in so delicate an operation of the "metal locator" that' helped surgeons extract pieces of shrapnel from the wounded at Pearl Harbor (TIME, Jan. 19, 1942). Although simpler and quicker than X ray, the locator (which is attached to a sensitive ammeter) had hitherto been considered too crude for such fine work. The assistant who helped the Mt. Sinai surgeon use the instrument was its inventor Manhattan Subway Engineer Samuel Berman...
Less Gas, More Gasoline. The slow pulsing (three miles an hour) of the oil along Big Inch's 1,475-mile journey was the steadiest progress that the East's crucial gas & oil shortage made last week. In Washington, D.C., moves came quicker, but produced no oil. OPAdministrator Prentiss Brown prematurely announced that the pleasure-driving ban on Eastern motorists would be lifted "as soon as possible." Harold Ickes countered that Big Inch was chiefly a military supply line, would "give no more gasoline for pleasure driving." Representative Fred A. Hartley of New Jersey, chairman of an unofficial...
...canal around the three-quarter-mile white water rapids. The first canal and a tiny, 39-foot-long lock were dug in 1797 by the North West Fur Co. to steal a march on the Hudson's Bay Co. This gave its bearded, fur-hatted voyageurs a quicker route for their flat-bottomed bateaux. During the war of 1812, Americans wrecked this canal. Later, when the Michigan legislature asked Congress to dig a new canal, Congress refused, relying on the judgment of Orator Henry Clay, who cried: "It is a work quite beyond the remotest settlement of the United...
...little Saltier in their speech, a little quicker in their formations, and a little more at home in their whites, there are some V-men who can be spotted easily in their new Kirkland-E' lot House surroundings...