Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miles of the semicircular U.N. front was North Korean resistance as stubborn as at Kumchon. On the 1st Cavalry's right flank, the 1st R.O.K. Division under able Major General Paik Sun Yap (TIME, July 24) raced ahead, aided by U.S. tanks and rockets from F-80s. Said trim, 30-year-old General Paik, "Now at least we have some tanks, too, and it is wonderful. My tactic is 'no stop.' " He added proudly, "Now we can be like General Patton...
...ordinary fatigue uniform and cap, with a .38-caliber revolver at his side and an old leather map case under his arm, trim, greying General Almond spent the first few days of the week making the rounds of his troops. He inspected the marines in their staging area, chatted with a hundred leathernecks ("What's your name? Where's your home? How long have you been in the service?"), found one who didn't know his rifle number and chided him (it's a military notion that a soldier who knows his rifle number will treat...
...Salesman Lee, who died in 1934, also ran his custom body-shop to turn out the gold-trim and other gewgaws fancied by filmdom's elite. Among them: a $50,000 body on a Rolls-Royce chassis for Comic Fatty Arbuckle...
...most radical change in design since steel boxcars were first introduced in 1914. Though it is 30% lighter than a steel car, the plywood car has withstood three times as much pressure in "squeeze" (collision) tests between two cars. Thus it is not only cheaper to haul but could trim the big-$115 million in 1949-railroad bill for damage to freight...
Sharp Cuts. This week the Administration planned to slap on new credit controls designed to trim the rate of new housing starts from the current 1,400,000 a year to 800,000. That alone would free about $3 billion worth of materials and thousands of workers. In fact, builders already had cut back so sharply that some of them were warning that existing controls will carry "deflation" in building too far (see Housing...