Word: tilting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plants now under construction will not turn a wheel for months after they are completed, at best will run well below capacity. Some will stand idle for the duration. Donald Nelson said frankly that there are not enough raw materials to keep all the plants already built running full tilt, let alone all the new ones. In fact, Robert Nathan, chief of Nelson's Planning Board, believes that some of the half-finished structures should be torn down to recover the materials that were put in them, put them to use in more urgent war needs...
...infield error in a tight situation meant the run that gave Brown a 1-0 decision over hard-luck Warren "Moe" Berg in last Wednesday's tilt at Soldiers Field. It was a blazing pitchers' duel all the way, with the Bruins' veteran right hander Nichols allowing the Crimson only five hits, while Berg let the Brown team down with seven singles. Although the Crimson mounds man racked up seven strikeouts, Nichols' superior support from a hustling Bruin aggregation that made only one error, gave him the edge...
...football games will be played at the Yankee Stadium, New York, instead of Palmer Stadium, Princeton, as originally scheduled. The cause for the change, it was announced, is the growing gasoline and rubber rationing. The two games thus affected are the Army game on November 26, and the Navy tilt for October...
Dreamed up by ex-Cowboy Fred Harman in 1938, the Ryder had appeared in 640 newspapers in every State in the union, had accumulated a daily following of more than 13,000,000 readers. Mutual decided to tilt high-minded Ryder against masked Ranger. They put Red on a Mutual hookup at the same hour. To the tune of The Dying Cowboy the Ryder thundered in on his horse, Thunder, finished in a dead heat against Silver, the Ranger...
Although costing less than two destroyers, these new plants & lines will do a fleet's work for a tin-short U.S. When going full tilt in early 1943, they will save about 5,250 tons of tin annually. This equals 14% of the tin normally used in making all U.S. tin plate-enough to cover well over a billion tin cans...