Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inconstant Supply. But how to meet this demand without interruption, befuddled Selective Service had not yet firmly decided. This week, after stern threats to draft every eligible man, regardless of family status (and of many formerly solid claims to occupational exemption), S.S. changed its tack again...
Senator Wheeler went off on a new tack: "There are in this country today over 3,000,000 men in the 4F classification. . . . I have seen instance after instance of men who have been rejected subsequently going to work on the railroads or in factories, and demonstrating that they are just as strong as men in the services...
Damonte was not sure why he was wanted, but he had a pretty good idea. Two weeks ago he was called up for questioning about his investigating committee. His case was clear; he was released. Now the Government was trying another tack: in its current "cleanup" campaign (TIME, Sept. 13), it got around to looking into certain iron deals in which Damonte had participated. If Critica's hard-hitting editor could not be got one way, another way might serve...
...songbook "lewd and obscene," even though it had been reviewed by the military. Post Exchanges continued to sell it. Men in service, never noted for dainty diction, continued to sing of disrespect and dirt as they went about their dirty business: We had a major and his name was Tack...
Called Seaporcel, a silica product, the coating is first sprayed, then fired on the surface of metal. The Navy and Maritime Commission are covering bulkheads, doors, crews' quarters and galleys with it. It does not char, chip or crack, can be cut or tack-welded like uncoated metal, and actually strengthens light steel sheets to which it is applied-a quality which may make it possible to build lighter ships. Whether Seaporcel can be used on a ship's hull is still a moot question; the Navy is testing to see whether barnacles will grow...