Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sons of the New Jersey farmers who drove out the fine Japanese "Thin Men" (TiME, April 24) will feel very proud of their righteous, fairminded, liberty-loving, patriotic parents when they hear of the latest blow struck in the interest of America and a better world. They will feel very proud that, while they are fighting the Germans to free the people of Europe, and the Japs to free the peoples of China and the Pacific, the home folks are doing their bit to make the U.S. untenable for any but true "full-blooded Americans": tall men with white skin...
...China and her allies could do little. The Japanese thrust into India had cut down the already thin trickle of supplies to the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China. Acute shortage of trucks to move fuel and ammunition made it nearly impossible to set up air bases close to the new front or to give adequate supply to front-line troops...
...arrived, in the person of an old-family Chicagoan, Under Secretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield Taylor - a rich man's son, product of St. Mark's and Yale, onetime investment banker, and by no means a wild-eyed New Dealer. Sewell Avery rose from his chair, his thin lips parting in an amiable smile, and courteously, gravely asked the U.S. Government to step in. The door closed...
Sewell Avery, a tall, thin man with long thin hands, glanced calmly at his watch. "Well," he said, "time to go home anyway." He left by a rear door, ducking reporters, jumped into his waiting black