Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aircraft industry this week pulled out of its long dive. The Air Force promise to spend $4.4 billion on new aircraft orders (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) set aircraftmakers furiously scurrying for the men, tools and materials to flesh out their skeleton assembly lines...
...nation's shipyards have not completed a single ocean-going passenger or cargo-passenger vessel in the last 23 months. As a result, the U.S. merchant fleet is slipping into middle age (the average ship is eight years old), and the once-mighty U.S. shipbuilding industry is growing skeleton-thin on hardtack. With just 19 ocean-going ships under construction last week, the U.S. has dropped to ninth place among the nations of the world in tonnage of new ships on order; even conquered Japan has more new ships abuilding...
...Moth Balls. Luckily the U.S. was not as badly off as it seemed. To date, the planes most needed in Korea are not the fastest, latest jets on which the aircraft industry's skeleton production is concentrating, but World War II types like the Mustang F-51. These are slower but have the longer cruising radius needed to fly from distant bases and provide tactical support for ground troops (see WAR IN ASIA). The U.S. had 4,600 such World War II planes in "moth balls" when the Korean war began and was rushing them into action. But Secretary...
...Korean war, are owed an explanation. When TIME went to press as usual late Monday night, President Truman had not been heard from and the U.S. position in the conflict was still publicly undecided. Our Washington bureau reporters stood by and waited. Arrangements were made to have a skeleton staff on hand at the editorial offices in New York for a Tuesday newsbreak. At 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, when word of the President's announcement came, TIME was being printed on schedule. Editor...
Fitted with a mask of wax, Saint Maria's skeleton had been brought to Rome for public veneration from her home town of Nettuno, near the Anzio beachhead of World War II. The ceremony had to be moved out of the basilica into St. Peter's Square because of the great crowds-estimated by the Vatican radio at 500,000. Pope Pius XII, robed in scarlet in honor of Maria's martyrdom and wearing the triregnum, his three-tiered crown, spoke from a portable throne to a throng that stretched before him for a quarter...