Word: railing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first detachment was made up of Navy families. A rear admiral's wife and commanders' wives mingled at the ship's rail with enlisted men's wives. Taught by experience, the Navy had leveled caste distinctions during the voyage and on arrival at Yokosuka...
...trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days...
...have been due to the coal and rail strikes. Or it may have been the record amusement-hungry crowds that jammed every race track and ballpark. Whatever the cause, there was a very slight slump at U.S. movie box offices during the month. But no exhibitor was either worried or feeling any pinch. So many people were still standing in line for movie seats that the trade described the slump as merely a drop "from super-sensational to mildly terrific" business...
...begins: "Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive. . . . It's Superman!" Last week, radio row was still chuckling over Clayton ("Bud") Collyer's dilemma. Like many another commuter, the 37-year-old radio actor who plays Superman had been stuck in Manhattan by the rail strike...
Fontana steel costs about $10 a ton more to make than eastern steel now supplying Detroit. Rail transportation will add another $15-20 a ton. The total cost of Fontana steel would thus be $25-30 more than other automobile manufacturers pay, enough to put the Kaiser Special at a serious if not fatal competitive disadvantage...