Word: tarring
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Rorello LaGuardia, Manhattan's hustling, bustling little Mayor, who in eleven years of office has proved a tar baby for nicknames ("Butch," "The Hat," "The Little Flower"), was tagged anew at the opening of an "Eat More Fish" campaign: "The Little Flounder...
Last week Air Forces engineers were glad to announce that they had a new emergency runway material with the essential advantages of steel mats. Known officially as PBS (Prefabricated Bituminous Surface), it consists of a layer of cloth between two layers of tar-soaked paper. It can be carried in one-tenth the airplane space and laid, by machine, almost twice as fast. Spread over a rolled earth surface, the durable, water-repellent covering sustains the heat and shock of landings with little damage, bogs down only when subsurface moisture is extreme...
First Frost. In Jersey City, Ignatz C. Banikonis, tipsy and overheated, lay down for a short nap, melted his way through the crust on a pool of tar, woke in the morning frozen in the tar except for part of his head and right side...
...wangles new contracts: "This is not the first time that emissaries from the West Coast cost-plus, free-spending, money-dissipating contractors have been in this territory. How long are we in Newy Orleans going to stand for these outrageous raids? . . . We still have some naval stores including tar . . . and feathers are in abundance...
...issued clubs to the prison guards, ordered them to beat up a recalcitrant prisoner. When the guards refused, he called in MPs. The nine ringleaders of the prison gang (six white men, three Negroes) were taken into a tar-papered room. While the major stood outside, armed with a pistol and a submachine gun, the MPs flogged the prisoners' bare back sides with weighted rubber hoses. One man had to be taken to the hospital. By night fall, the story was all over camp - and Major Lefkoff's military career had ended...