Word: sheetings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as Worcester, Mass, celebrated "All-British Week," its citizens got a sample of this venerable sheet. The Worcester, Mass. Telegram reprinted a specially-edited front page of the English paper, flown to the U.S. by bomber. For the occasion, as a supreme hands-across-the-sea gesture, Berrow's abandoned a 254-year-old custom, cleared the classified ads off its front page, substituted news...
...days before he died, Tesla sent a messenger with an envelope addressed to "Mr. Samuel Clemens, 35 South Fifth Street, New York City." Inside the envelope was a blank sheet of paper wrapped around $100 in $5 bills. No one could persuade Tesla that his old friend Mark Twain was dead. Cried he: "He was in my room, here, last night...
...each third-quarter tally sheet carried more if, and, or but footnotes than a timetable. Not until the year's end, when reserves and taxes are adjusted and contracts renegotiated, will company accountants know for sure whether 1944 profits will be greater or less than last year...
...roaming Argentine bandleader named Eugenio Nobile. Nobile had been combing remote districts of South America for years, picking up scraps of primitive music and processing them into tunes for the swank dance halls of Buenos Aires. By last week his adaptation of Santa Marta had broken the sheet-music records of Buenos Aires' Tin Pan Alley...
...primitive on Saipan. The shipping shortage and the necessity of supplying battles farther west permit only the barest necessities (even for Saipan's American conquerors, who still eat out of cans). For the captive civilians the only cover is what can be built out of weathered planks, battered sheet tin from the bomb-shattered sugar refinery, and tattered tenting...