Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Massive, thick-necked, aged (80) Lieut. Governor Walter S. Goodland (a Republican whom reporters call "Woof Woof" because he looks and growls like a St. Bernard) might get the job. He was re-elected last month, had himself sworn in for his new term by his nephew one hour and ten minutes after he heard of Loomis' death. Though Wisconsin's Constitution makes no such provision, Walter Goodland's friends insist that he should on Inauguration Day (Jan. 4) become acting governor...
...look as much as possible like a girl." At school Salvador was the only child to be brought "hot milk and cocoa . . . in a magnificent thermos bottle wrapped in a cloth embroidered with my initials." Surrounded by poor children, Salvador wore "a sailor suit with insignia embroidered in thick gold," always carried a "flexible new bamboo cane adorned with a silver dog's head...
...Production Board offices, where gloom has often been thick enough to cut with a machine tool, were aglow last week with broad smiles, good digestions, men humming in the halls...
Rumors flew thick & fast in Washington last week that Leon Henderson was through as Price Boss. The rumors began when he resigned as Director of Civilian Supply and turned the job over to his deputy, Lawyer Joseph L. Weiner. They multiplied when the Truman Committee blasted his administration of fuel-oil rationing. Henderson's press conference was designed to defend his record and spike the rumors-but it did not quite succeed...
When war broke out Lukens was a natural-for one thing its big mill could roll plates twice as thick and 40 in. wider than anyone else. So the Navy placed orders for battleship armor up to 9½ in. thick, welded marine-engine blocks and submarine parts; the Army ordered light tank armor, antiaircraft gun bases, other fabricated steel parts. To boost output faster Defense Plant Corp. okayed a $25,000,000 plant expansion (total plant in 1940: $8,385,000). Result: in 1939-42 Lukens almost tripled employment to 6,000, quadrupled sales to $47,000,000, multiplied...