Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jack, a framed list of U.S. Presidents, a copy of George Washington's will, a painting of the Great Seal of Ohio, a pair of spectacles, a textbook on navigation, a lawbook, The Book of Mormon, a set of Indian arrowheads, a turkey's wishbone (the V-symbol), an autographed picture of Jack Dempsey and a carton of skin lotion, a couple of soap dishes, a portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt done on a typewriter...
...symbol of U.S. confidence was Senator Alben Barkley. Said he, with majestic self-control: "We have steeled ourselves to expect some temporary reverses. . . ." The image of the strange, W. C. Fields-like dignity which gripped much of the U.S. was Senator Tom Connally. Said he, transcending the headlines of the week: "Experts for years have regarded the Philippines as a military liability...
Bewildered or not, the U.S. was also working. A symbol of its working attitude was Robert Price (see cut), a lathe operator for Allis-Chalmers, who rushed to the factory in his full dress and topper from a New Year's party. In a huge Packard factory in Detroit, making parts for Rolls-Royce Merlin aircraft engines, one good union man, tuxedo-clad, ran his machine through the dawn of the New Year...
Paris' Eiffel Tower is a gaunt, startling skeleton of bare iron bones which hypersensitive esthetes have often called "a horrible thing ... a monster of the imagination." But ever since it was finished in 1889, the 984-foot tower has been jealously adored as a symbol of Paris. It has been visited by 18 millions. It has traveled worldwide by post card, is clearly imprinted on the mind's eye of a large part of the world's population. It has inspired countless little boys playing with sets of Meccano...
Done for the duration is the All-American industry, the symbol of mass production, the maker and remaker of modern America : automobiles...