Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inferior leadership and is evidenced by excessive courts-martial; a high percentage of desertion and absence without leave; slovenly dress, inattention to saluting . . . general inefficiency. . . . The successful leader must, first, have a thorough understanding on his own part of [these principles]. . . . Further, he must constantly keep in mind the twin objectives of the selective service law, i.e., 1) to train an adequate military force . . . 2) to return to civil life young Americans inculcated with a high sense of duty and patriotism...
Brusque, able, serious-minded Joseph Ball is called by other Minnesota political writers the best-grounded writer on government in the Twin Cities. Popular, but no handshaker, with 180 Ib. on his 6 ft. frame, he was born in Crookston, Minn., raised seed corn to pay his way through a year of Antioch College, went to the University of Minnesota (but did not graduate), got a job on the Minneapolis Journal when he was 21, married a reporter on the same paper, took a year off, like all newspapermen, to free-lance writing fiction. Back on the St. Paul Despatch...
Three U. S. fighting planes are built around the Allison engine: Bell's Airacobra; Curtiss-Wright's snappy P-4O (also made in Buffalo) ; Lockheed's twin-engined P-38. Curtiss-Wright last week had its P-4O production up to seven a day, for the moment had enough Allisons, but only because Bell and Lockheed did not yet need them in quantity. Both soon will; there will not be enough for all three for months. One or more will have to finish fuselages and wings, store them and wait for engines...
Among light trucks, Divco-Twin, unknown until three or four years ago, is breaking records with slow, low-powered, boxlike models for milkmen, bakery routes. This year's Divco line includes a refrigerated truck. Willys '41s look like converted passenger models, as do Hudson and Buick. Studebaker pioneered cab-over-engine design in 1937. It sold thousands of trucks to the Allies last winter. Tailing the procession are the buglike, tiny Crosley panel deliveries and pickups. Chief selling point: cent-a-mile operation...
What goes for Penn goes for its big twin brother, Cornell, which could undoubtedly improve on the 50 to 7 shellacking that the Quakers plastered on Yale...