Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once limited to small shapes (like porous oil-filled bearings for automobile springs), plastic metals are now molded into thousands of parts, from tiny bearings (1/64th oz.) to big pieces (65 lb.). that replace castings on medium tanks. Powdered metals, molded to shape with heat and pressure, need little machining or finishing, save time as well as bronze, aluminum and other scarce metals...
...work in Asia is not one of salvage for an old status. It is one of giving scope and shape to a new life already born. That new life will not be abolished if the West ignores it; it will be for us or against us. It can be for us if we act now in its behalf. If it is against us, it will be long before America can enjoy the luxury of demobilization...
...telling all about General Patton's colorful days at Fort Benning. (This was dated October 28, 1941 and filed away for future use. Another long report was filed nearly a year ago by correspondent Wilmott Ragsdale, on how General Patton was whipping our new desert warfare battalions into shape in the California desert...
...from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked it out in mighty fine feathers...
...decades will leave his charges in midstream this year to accept a commission in the Navy. Tom Bolles, a fixture here since 1936, will leave on Saturday to report for indoctrination at Columbia University in New York. Bert Haines will take over Bolles task of whipping the oarsmen into shape for the rest of the season...