Word: squirrels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this year's total income he forks up the balance; if more, the Treasury rebates to him. Nobody loses, but men going from high-paying jobs into the armed services, or forced out of work by priorities and the like can get out of the nightmare squirrel cage of paying high taxes for nearly a year more. And come a post-war depression, workers with deflated pay envelopes would benefit...
...nobody has doped out a way to reallocate the jumpy housewife's unmeasured hoard. If she plays squirrel again as she did in 1939 (TIME, Sept. 18, 1939) ration cards will be the only way to keep her calmer neighbor in sugar...
Hunters. In Wheeler, Ore., an excited hunter stumbled, fell when a flock of geese honked overhead. His gun went off, bagged three. In Pittsfield, Mass., a hunter fired his shotgun at a squirrel in a tree, missed, brought down four raccoons...
...rambling West Redding, Conn. farm house of a 64-year-old spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly on her farm, even though she built an extra...
...They were watching for a sight of 150 planes headed for an "attack" on New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, other East Coast cities. Spotted at five-mile intervals throughout the endangered territory, which cut inland 150 miles, they were haphazardly equipped with everything from scythes and squirrel rifles to radios and binoculars. But their chief defensive weapon was the telephone...