Word: rolles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come to U.S. ports once more-via Japan and Russia. Tokyo, saddled with a mountainous surplus, sells it to the Soviet Union; Russia again trades it for U.S. war goods which she needs to fight Japan's allies in Europe. Some day Malayan rubber from Japan might roll again down Singapore's wide streets under the U.S. flag. Meanwhile, the world had another example of a paradox of international war and commerce: how to trade, at second hand, with the enemy...
Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941) has turned his amateur yachtsmanship to use as a lieutenant on the Corvette Flower. This is his third winter of service in the North Atlantic convoys. Corvettes are the smallest British vessels in active service. They "would roll on wet grass," and some of Lieut. Monsarrat's most vivid writing describes merely the mixture of discomfort and deep pride which the corvettes engender in the heroic, fatalistic corvetteers who man them...
...Come on, you mortar men, rise and shine," he says softly, before reveille. The ensuing scramble is pure bedlam, because the last two men of the platoon to answer roll call get the "yardbird" detail. When the Marines sailed for the Solomons, officers debated whether to take ancient Lou Diamond overseas. Lou bellowed orders to his platoon so boisterously that he sounded like all the sergeants in the Corps. He went along...
...most magniloquently named organizations on earth, Imperial Industrial Corp., was rolling steadily forward last week. Imperial Industrial Corp. belches no great plume of smoke over the industrial landscape; it is, simply, all that is left of the U.S. pianola roll business. But Imperial is a complete monopoly and it is enjoying a small boom, largely produced by A.F. of M. Boss James Caesar Petrillo's ban on phonograph recording (TIME, June...
Results. Scherwin's survey, made on orders from Major General Edmund B. Gregory, Quartermaster General, recommended that cooks cease preparing meals to feed the number of men at the morning roll call. He found absenteeism at dinner and supper often ran as high as 20%. Reasons: mild illness, eating at post exchanges, anxiety to get away early on leave. By allowing for absentees, the Army hopes to cut $119,000,000 from its annual food bill, which in 1943 will be about $1,250,000,000. Other savings may be made by eliminating wastage that Scherwin uncovered...