Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Smaller users of steel fell unhappily into line with production cuts or layoffs. Among the big employers were General Electric, the Simmons [mattress] Co., 37 steel-container manufacturers, some farm-equipment works of J. I. Case. In stagnating steel towns workers gathered morosely in the shadow of smokeless stacks, playing cards and trading worries as they waited their turns on the picket lines. Even an immediate end of the strike would not halt the grinding slowdown. It would take six to eight weeks of production to put sufficient steel back in circulation...
Astronomers used to think that only good-sized meteorites reach the earth intact, while the smaller ones "burn" to vapor on passing through the atmosphere. But Dr. H. E. Landsberg at the U.S. Weather Bureau had another idea. He smeared some microscope slides with glycerin and exposed them on a mountaintop just before a shower of "Giacobinid" meteors* was expected. Before and during the shower, he caught nothing unusual. But for many days after the shower he caught highly magnetic particles unlike anything found in normal dust-catches...
Before leaving, the garrison of 80,000 Nationalists blew up the Pearl River bridge, damaged the city's power plant, set fire to airfield installations. Then it broke into two fleeing parts. The bulk moved into the hinterland where the Reds had not yet penetrated. A smaller group headed toward the sea and ships that would carry them to Hainan and Formosa...
...Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute last week, the year's handsomest cross section of current U.S. painting went on display. It was the last of the institute's national surveys; next year the Carnegie will go back to its international annuals which were interrupted by the war. Smaller and more selective than Paris' "Salon d'Automne" (TIME, Oct. 17), the Carnegie exhibition proved that U.S. artists can hold their own with the French...
There is scarcely a man alive who has not heard tales of the days when men were men, when Cecil Rhodes was carving an empire and Jack the Ripper worked on a smaller scales. There is also scarcely a man alive who believes any of it without something in the way of proof. With that as background, here is the story of the great trained moose of Shawinigan Falls, a noted boast of balled and legend, and an animal which so far as we can judge, actually existed...