Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Health. "We must establish on broad and solid foundations a national health service. ... If this country is to keep its high place in the leadership of the world and to survive as a great power that can hold its own against external pressure, our people must be encouraged by every means to have larger families...
...element silicon, rather than the element carbon which provides the chemical skeleton for the majority. These "silicones" are the result of research by Corning Glass Works (glass might be called a silicon plastic) and engineering by Dow Chemical Co. First uses, undoubtedly military, have not been disclosed. The silicones, solid or liquid, have one extraordinary property: an ability to stand extreme temperatures characteristic of their silicon parentage...
...most self-incriminating gesture of the premiere was the printing of programs without any writing or production credits, but the show isn't that bad. The book is over-written and badly timed, the direction shoddy. The musical numbers as usual are far better, though only two are really solid from start to finish. Bob Alton's dances and Vernon Duke's music are sprightly and novel, but not up to their previous levels. So we might as well sing the old refrain: "By the time it reaches New York...
Franklin Roosevelt's postwar social security program plumped last week into the lap of Congress. Thumbing through the 721 type-packed pages, hoisting the 5¾ Ib. of solid weight, blinking at the long footnotes. Congressmen tried valiantly to say something equally weighty...
...Hood Rubber Co.'s series "How To Make Your Rubber Footwear Last Longer." Like many a British wartime advertisement, this one mixed humor with solid advice. A cartoon showed two armed guards toting a padlocked, ironbound chest into a house; the housewife was calling upstairs: "It's the men with your galoshes, dear...