Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those tradition-bound organizations, such as the fact that Navy dungarees are now built with fullness in the derriere. The Navy seems to have accepted the fact that it is more graceful to bow to the inevitable than to try the impossible-that is, to change the natural shape of things by mere exercise...
...Much? Nevertheless, coal is being dug. The Army Service Forces, busily fixing up the railroads and clearing the canals, soon hope to have them in shape. As yet, Ruhr production is small-only 500,000 tons of low quality coal (brown coal or lignite) a month. But the Allies hope to boost this to 3,500,000 tons 'of hard coal and 2,500,000 tons of brown coal by Christmas. While this is far less than Germany's prewar production in the Ruhr (9,000,000 tons of hard coal and 4,000,000 tons of brown...
...Getting Goring into shape for trial, U.S. captors by last week had sharply cut his daily allowance of morphine (an addict since World War I, he was taking 20 times the normal dose when he surrendered eight weeks ago). Meanwhile, U.S. interrogators learned from one of Hitler's office helpers that the Führer took 5 cc.s of morphine daily, † Numerous body scars, a foot scar and an aluminum kneecap from World War I; a forehead scar from the time a bathroom skylight fell on him. He shaved off his beard last year without injury...
...costumes that the cinemadapters of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come dreamed up is here. The flyer is wearing a "Strato-Suit" developed by the late Major John G. Kearby of the Air Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...
Last week a plan, devised by the Public Health Service's Medical Director Paul M. Stewart and backed by the Surplus Property Board's Ed Heller, took shape in Washington. Under it, the Surplus Property Board would : 1 ) sell or rent leftover medical supplies and equipment to communities which could not afford to buy them on the regular market; 2) charge almost nothing - e.g., a dollar a year rent for expensive X-ray apparatus...