Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Silver-haired, trim (about 175 lb., 5 ft. 10 in.), Andy Andrews looks the general. He golfs. He still likes to fly, does it well. He gambles (for enough to make it profitable fun). He is a discriminating Martini sipper (who says that he has yet to find a properly mixed Martini). He likes to take his friends on cocktail-picnic parties. In short, he has unusual social adaptability joined to his forthright military drive. With modesty and patience, he has survived a difficult, frustrated tour as commander of the Caribbean Air Forces under his predecessor in the top command...
...some of the motormakers, there was a silver lining to OPM's order: truck production was to be increased by about 200,000 units (to 1,189,000 for the model year that began Aug. 1). Manufacturers of heavy and medium trucks were to get A-3 priorities on materials (with a careful check to see that materials went into trucks, not passenger cars). But this same priority rating has not saved railroad-car builders from having to curtail production for lack of steel...
...Augusta, moving jauntily in his cocky walk, a long, specially made cigar crunched in his teeth. He wore his Trinity House uniform of dark blue, the effect of its eight brass buttons slightly marred by the grey marks where he had hastily brushed away the little mound of silver grey cigar ash that collects on his stomach as he sits slouched down.* His zippered ankle-high shoes were half unzipped. He handed a letter to Franklin Roosevelt, said: "I have the honor, Mr. President, to hand you a letter from His Majesty the King...
...Constantine Cotzias' missions in the U.S. is to present the Gold Medal of Honorary Athenian Citizenship to President Roosevelt, to whom it was voted last March. Greece's King George II, who now lives near Pretoria, South Africa, holds only the Silver Medal...
...Kearny Street" went out of business last week. Closed was the powerful bail-bond firm of McDonough Bros., which had flourished for 50 years in San Francisco. The building-in the shadow of the Hall of Justice (police courts)-still has the cupid-festooned ceilings, mahogany woodwork and silver spittoons of the days when it was a saloon. San Franciscans believe it was the first bail-bond firm in the U.S. It was without a doubt the most notorious business house in San Francisco...