Word: strides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merciless Japanese. The Chinese call it the Middle Kingdom Space Machine Family; to foreigners it is known as China National Aviation Corp., operated by far-flung Pan American Airways in partnership with the Chinese Government. CNAC, a collection of seasoned pilots and even more seasoned planes, takes in its stride adventures which would not be believed if seen in the movies. Last week CNAC told a tale which topped its bravura career...
Radio manufacturing has recently looked like the first U.S. consumer industry to take the guns-v.-butter dilemma in its stride. Although it faced a 75% cut in its normal business and already felt the metals shortage, Bond P. Geddes, executive vice president of the Radio Manufacturers Association, last fortnight said the industry had "no squawks." But last week he was squawking as hard as the rest...
Frankly regretful to leave Fort Knox, which shared his disappointment, General Surles was characteristically modest-about his plans for tackling the big headaches ahead: "I'm going to look up some of my old friends when I get there to get back into stride. I'll let the newspaper boys do the writing. I'll furnish the facts. That's my idea of the job. There is definitely no idea of censorship...
...hands-across-the-sea propaganda it has produced since outbreak of the war. Answering You is a kind of international Information Please, with questions supplied by U.S. citizens, answers by a British board of experts. Garbled by sunspots its first time out, Answering You finally hit its stride this week. Formidable was the job of British wizards who undertook to outline Britain's war aims, answer, with appropriate deletion of profanity, such queries as: "Why the hell doesn't England bomb Berlin...
...Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Md. declared that U.S. citizens suffer from "great nervous stress [from] . . . so many terrifying alarms." In Germany, he continued, "control of neurosis has been attained. . . . Everyone has something to do and it is plain to him that what he is doing is a definite stride toward the goal he desires...