Word: specializer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...legislators were assembled in special session. Governor Ingram Stainback wanted a law which would end the paralyzing strike of Harry Bridges' Communist-line International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (TIME, July 4). Nobody was in the mood for comedy. Up before the legislature were 19 different proposals for emergency action. One soon passed in the house, but ran into delay in the senate. It would authorize the territory to set up its own stevedoring company, rent docks and equipment from the struck companies and operate them until the strike was settled...
...There is no room for pastel shades." Later, Cardinal Spellman, who heard the sermon, modified the interpretation a bit: Catholics who must read the Worker and other Communist literature for their work would be allowed to continue doing so, if they applied to church authorities for special permission...
...over the U.S., "from boardrooms to barrooms" Luckman had encountered it. The talkers were not measuring the U.S. economy, but "their own fever chart"-using a special kind of emotional arithmetic, adding two and two to get zero. Luckman preferred to add U.S. employment of 59 million (still close to its alltime high), savings of $200 billion and a purchasing power 53% higher than prewar. "Too many . . . have accepted the jabber-jitter estimates of what is wrong with America, instead of finding out . . . what is right...
...Connecticut turned the $1,200,000 into a special fund that still helps the state's schools, and invested some of the money in Ohio mortgages. Last week, by act of the Connecticut legislature, a single remaining acre southwest of Toledo was handed back to Ohio...
Litter Perfect. In South Houston, Tex., a stray yellow alley cat wandered into the local post office building and gave birth to tour kittens under the Special Delivery table...