Word: thin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many Indians the line between perpetual hunger and real starvation is thin. Last week that line was thinner than ever...
...first U.S. radio staffmen to broadcast regularly over the Soviet radio was back home last week and talking last week. CBS's dark, thin Larry Lesueur, 33, rolled into Russia via Archangel a year ago. Onetime United Press reporter, he had covered the R.A.F. in France from war's outbreak through Dunkirk, the London blitz as apprentice to CBS's Edward R. Murrow. In talking about Russian radio Lesueur told a lot about Russia...
Proud of its production, Studebaker is also proud of something else: its profit margins on Government contracts are paper-thin. In 1923 the company earned 10% on sales, in 1941 about 2%, this year less than...
...Japanese attack would be the city of Kunming, at the top of the Burma Road. There U.S. ferry planes from General Elmer Edward Adler's India-based Army Air Forces refuel. The closing of the Burma Road itself had clamped a terrible constriction on China's thin lines of supply. Japa nese occupation of Yunnan would draw the cord tighter, could even throttle China...
...feet wide, passed through a furnace at 1,300 feet per minute-enough to cover an entire football field every 18 minutes. But the plated coating is not perfect. Dull grey, its porosity and corrosion resistance are not satisfactory. To complete the process it is necessary to remelt the thin skin of tin momentarily, so that it renews to make a smoother, tougher surface...