Word: tans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not twist into something nasty. It got into war work ten months ago when the elastic shortage mildly upset peacetime business and the Medical Corps was hunting for someone to make quantities of tourniquets, straps, tapes, etc. Then it picked up orders for 60,000 WAAC girdles (flesh-tan, 280 sq. in. of elastic, four 2½-in. garters), some 50,000 Army flare parachutes to boot...
...down $1,000,000 cash, bought control of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Co. (Spuds and Twenty Grand). Since then they have put in new management, new machinery, new inventory. Now pepped-up Axton-Fisher is out with a new cigaret-Fleetwood Imperials, a king-sized smoke done up in a tan-and-gold package, designed to lure U.S. citizens away from the Big Four (Lucky Strikes, Camels, Chesterfields, Philip Morris...
Died. Joe Knowles, 73, briefly and widely famed "nature man" of three decades ago; in Seaview, Wash. Emptyhanded, naked except for a loincloth, he entered the Maine woods for a man-v.-nature tussle in 1913, emerged two months later wearing a bearskin, a beard, a splendid sun tan, to win national acclaim and a 20-week vaudeville contract. Later it turned out he had spent most of the time hiding in a cabin with a Boston ex-publicity man, who had written Knowles's "birchbark diary," sent it back to the Boston Post, which printed it regularly, thus...
Manpower. Since April, when President Roosevelt made tall, tan and terrific-Paul Vories McNutt head of WMC, Americans have expected the Manpower Tsar to start ordering them around: to tell businessmen whom they could hire, snatch housewives out of their homes. They did not realize that his title was ersatz, that he has authority to make policy but none to carry it out, that in all Washington there is hardly a man willing to lift a finger to give him that power. He cannot yet give orders to any worker. The nation's 6,500 independent draft boards take...
Commander Nancy Harkness Love of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (TIME, Sept. 21) last week told about WAFS uniforms: grey-green wool gabardine jackets with squared shoulders, gored skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks...