Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this made no impression in Detroit, which regards itself as already deep in mass production for war. There is no question that Detroit's methods are different; there is a question of how flexible they may prove if design changes come too thick & fast. Detroit's biggest single venture into aircraft-the titanic Ford plant at Willow Run-has yet to show its stuff. Last week peacock-proud Charlie Sorensen showed newsmen the first B-24-E bomber off Willow Run's half-mile long assembly lines, predicted a ship an hour by late summer. Said...
...Invaders," newest celluloid to glorify the democratic way of life, brings to mind that part from "The Walrus and the Carpenter" that goes: "Four other oysters followed them, and yet another four; and thick and fast they came at last, and more, and more, and more--all hopping through the frothy waves, and scrambling to the shore." This particular oyster tastes a little different from "Night Train," "Man Hunt," "Mortal Storm," and "Confessions of a You-Know-What Spy," but it is unmistakably of the same brand of sea food...
This week the British finally felt sure they were lending fighting aid to Russia for the spring campaign. Over the continent the weather had lain thick, and for a week Britain's long-range bombers had squatted glumly in their dispersal stations with no place to go. Handier ships-light bombers and pursuits-went out whenever there was a break. They picked at the pock-marked townson the invasion coast, ranged east to the Frisians off the Netherlands' coast, where they scratched a convoy and lost five planes...
...public, traditionally suspicious of striped-pants diplomats, he looks disarmingly undiplomatic. His roly-poly shape, bland face, crinkly eyes, thick spectacles and thinning grey hair give him the friendly air of a delicatessen-keeper. His accent sounds like purest ingenuous Brooklynese. He looks exactly like his Revolution-days nickname: Papasha-Little Papa...
...mile after mile of tall timber was reduced last week to black stumps the Forest Service schemed to prevent any more Axis-scorched earth in the U.S. Throughout the Pacific Coast's 91,940,000 acres of timberland an abnormally wet winter and spring have nourished lush, thick vegetation, highly inflammable once it dries. Men were already in training in Washington State's breadbasket to fight grain fires in June...