Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days after Franklin Roosevelt's third inauguration, James Clark McReynolds, who will be 79 on Feb. 3, resigned as Associate Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court. He was the last of the archconservatives. Justices Willis Van Devanter and George Sutherland had retired; Justice Pierce Butler, solid rock of conservatism, had died. The last leaf on the old tree was Justice McReynolds, and even his fierce keening ("The Constitution is gone! . . . This is Nero in his worst form") had subsided from grumpy, almost invariably dissenting opinions into simple votes of "No" against liberal legislation...
...feint, heavy concentrations of vehicles and men were massed east of the town, near the sea. In the night they were stolen away to the point of real attack-a place just by the Bardia road where the Italians, in digging their tank traps, had come to solid rock and dug down only two feet...
...World War I, the island of Malta was used as a vast hospital for wounded Allies. But this forbidding rock offers thin hospitality in this war. Angry are its forts, its schools of mines crowding ten miles out to sea, its anti-aircraft guns, its airdromes with hangars sheltered by bombproof rock quarries, its harbor-mouths teethed with 10-, 14-, 16-inch guns, its dockyard, its seaplane and sub marine bases...
Four days later, "K. T." and a few technicians were at Rock Island Arsenal looking over a medium tank (one of about 200 now on hand, mostly out of date). Day after, he was back in Detroit with 186 pounds of blueprints of an improved 25-tonner and a brand-new production problem. To work on the blueprints went 197 Chryslermen, led by Staff Master Mechanic Edward J. Hunt. Their first job: to go through the blueprints, get out a production line and a tool list, calculate production processes and finally lay out the building where the 25-tonners would...
Director Mack had got cooperation that was worthwhile. Nash-Kelvinator shaved the price on 25,000 electric refrigerators to $52 each (retail price $105). A medicine cabinetmaker knocked down his wholesale price from $5 to $2. Another Midwestern manufacturer, after quoting rock bottom on about 30,000 bath tubs, confided: "But you can save $2 a tub if you buy the fittings from the same people we buy them from." So Mack bought "stripped" tubs, got fittings for them from the cheaper source. Savings: almost $60,000 on tubs alone. Said Director Mack, pleased as Punch...