Word: trail
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Commander Gene Tunney was led over an hour and 20 minutes of jungle trail to an advance post in Bougainville (TIME, Jan. 10). True. But Tunney was not taken up that difficult mountain trail to see how Marines were "taking it." . . . The Marines had been relieved by soldiers. You report also that on the way back the "45-year-old, 210-pound Tunney set the pace with a dogtrot, kept his followers puffing...
Gentlemen. ... It was all Tunney could manage to get down the trail at all, any old way, let alone trying to "dogtrot." You have to see the Bougainville terrain to appreciate how tortuous it is. Although he is in excellent condition, I think that he will be first to admit that the bulk of the "puffing" was done by none other than Gene Tunney himself...
Seven Deadly Sins. To ward off the public beating now beginning to come labor's way, Businessman Johnston proposed that labor and management "hit the sawdust trail together." Both groups, he declared, are guilty of "seven deadly sins": monopolistic practices to crush competitors; autocratic leadership; failure to make proper financial accounting to members, employes and the public; too many strikes, which withhold labor and new inventions from production; violence on the picket line, sometimes incited by management's hired thugs. The worst economic sin, said Johnston, is restraints on production by "featherbedding" and "slow-downing" designed to make...
...coated paper; a mixture of about 1% of Stabinol in ordinary soil prevents water from penetrating in sufficient quantity to soften it. A resin-stabilized road stays so dry that even when it is covered with a layer of water a truck driven over it throws up a trail of dust. Stabinol does not waterproof sand (because sand lacks a binder to make it solid) and it does not work on ground that is already muddy. It is most effective in heavy clay that usually becomes gooey when...
...give it up too, although he is by no means at the end of his trail. In Italy Pop Polifka still bosses Allied air reconnaissance-but from the ground, not from...