Word: sleekly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, the slick, sleek, swallow-swift destroyers (DDs) are necessarily shaped and molded, crammed like a clock with delicate precision parts. Cost of a modern destroyer: $7,500,000, five times the cost of a Liberty ship...
...elected next fall, New Jersey's ruddy, sleek Senator William H. Smathers must have the help of Boss Frank Hague. So Smathers recently backed Hague's man Thomas F. Meaney for a Federal judgeship. And, although Senator Smathers has not distinguished himself in the Senate, President Roosevelt, who wants 100% New Dealers reelected, obligingly appointed Meaney (TIME, May 18). The deal was a piece of routine politics...
University of Kansas. Bane of Kansas farmers, who call it the "country club," K.U. started off the school year with its usual pastimes of dancing, beering and cruising on Mount Oread in sleek convertible coupes. Since Dec. 7, collegiate life has grown earnest. With 10% of K.U.'s male students already enlisted or drafted, Navy "V" classes and R.O.T.C. have been packed. Biggest new academic course is "The World At War" (365 students...
...Trondheim near week's end slipped the sleek 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen with four destroyers around her, a hefty flight of Nazi fighters circling overhead. British reconnaissance pilots spotted the force, beep-beeped frantically on their radios for help. They got it quickly. From Britain a heavy air striking force -Beaufighters, Blenheims, Hudsons and Beaufort torpedo carriers-swept out across the North Sea. They found the Nazi force and piled in, while German fighters hacked at them...
Into the Army went the biggest, most important draftee yet-the entire U.S. air-transport system. The Presidential order gave the Army control of 19 privately owned airlines, some 275 sleek transports, millions of dollars' worth of vital aircraft parts, hangars and machinery, and 24,000 skilled workers (including 2,500 badly needed pilots, 5,900 crack mechanics and ground men). The Army did not take over the airlines to increase their efficiency-that has been tiptop for years. The reason was urgent need: Army air-freight and passenger traffic has priority on grounds of overwhelming volume alone...