Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Solicitude. In Salt Lake City, a woman bus-rider accidentally smudged a man's coat with lipstick, later called the Deseret News, asked them to explain the whole thing because he seemed "such a nice man" and she would hate to break up his family...
...officials of the Denver" & Rio Grande Western and the Denver & Salt Lake Railway Co. loudly blew their own horn. The tortuous, dangerous trackage they shared through the Colorado Rockies, said they, would henceforth be as safe as a baby's crib. Reason: they had spent $5,000,000 to build a "foolproof" central traffic control system (CTC). A dispatcher could keep such close tabs on train movements that it was "absolutely impossible for two trains to come together unless an engineer deliberately runs through a signal...
Four nights later an eastbound Denver & Salt Lake freight crawled through a heavy fog in deep Gore Canyon 90 miles west of Denver. It missed a signal, collided head on with a westbound Rio Grande passenger train, killed the fireman. Sadly, railroad officials amended their boast: "Our new system does not penetrate...
...Heard rushed to finish some Navy teaching films so that he could take on a job of Protestant movie production and pressagentry. He would be secretary of the newly organized Protestant Film Commission, one of whose aims was to flavor Hollywood's movie output with as much Protestant salt as possible. Among Secretary Heard's immediate duties...
...tradition-loving U.S. Navy was getting set to pitch a sea bag full of salt-rimed traditions overboard. Ready for the deep six were the square collar (origin: to protect blouses from tarred pigtails), the black neckerchief (to mourn the death of Lord Nelson), the bell-bottom trousers (to roll up easily for swabbing decks). For enlisted men, who had long envied the practical elegance of officers' uniforms while chafing at the lack of pockets and the tight fit of their own "monkey suits," it was good news. At shore stations and in the Fleet last week...