Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Relax, boys; reference is to temperature and the scale is Fahrenheit. (For nonscientific readers: 1) 310° K = 98.6°F; 2) that is body temperature; 3) a distortion point of 310°K would mean that the plastic cups would lose their shape at body temperature...
Winchell's chin-chopper column is the chief attraction of a curious new daily paper, the U.S. Journal, which made its first appearance this week. The Journal is about the size, shape and glossiness of Vogue but has only eight pages, costs a dime, and expects to break even if it sells only 10,000 copies. It is edited by Edward Maher, until recently the editor of Liberty. Maher hopes to cram the Journal with backdoor stuff, chitchat and personality stories. Says he: "When the other papers are covering 'big' developments, we'll be working behind...
...tidy present for U.S. taxpayers. How big the total budget slash would ultimately be, it was too early to tell. But Republicans were counting on its being big enough to justify the sizable cut they contemplated in income taxes. The tax program was being whipped into final shape. The Senate Finance Committee approved the House's tax bill with one major change. Instead of being retroactive to Jan. 1, cuts ranging from 30% in the lower brackets to 10.5% in the upper brackets would not take effect until July 1. Estimated total savings to U.S. taxpayers: $4 billion...
...sure what had happened. The light-keeper thought at first that the explosions had come before the crash. Then he was not so sure. T.W.A. officials guessed from the shape and position of the wreckage that the low-flying Connie had caught a wingtip in the water, said it had plunged into the bay and then exploded. Whatever the cause, it was the sixth misadventure (TIME, July 22 et seq.) on the jinx-ridden Connies' ill-starred record...
Stalin: Things are in very bad shape in Europe as a whole. Is that true...