Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...R.A.F.'s Fighter Command still depends for its frontier strength on a nucleus of Sabre jets, supplied by the U.S. and Canada. Britain's V-class bombers (Valiants, Vulcans and Victors) are still not operational, and to deliver its atom bombs, Bomber Command relies on the twin-engine Canberra, now officially classed as a "medium bomber." British designs are often first-rate, but British production is sluggish. The major difficulty is that the British Cabinet is still unsure how best to apportion its defense funds to meet the facts of the Hydrogen Age. "The H-bomb," confessed...
Here is a recent example that came from a TIME reader by the name of Nip Brigham. It began: "If there is a twin in your office please let him or her handle this problem...
...name is Nip Brigham. My twin brother is Nap Brigham. We both get mail at Post Office Box 1, Dyersburg, Tenn. Nip and Nap both subscribe to TIME-Nip for years, Nap just started. You have now dropped Nip's subscription. You must have extended Nip's with Nap's. Nip's has a year and a half to run, Nap's one year. Please send two copies each week-one to Nip and one to Nap. Nap gets to the box before I do." A little investigation cleared up the mistake. It seems that...
...assembly lines. Last week Chrysler Corp. brought out its new Plymouths and Dodges, all lower and longer than before, with Plymouth's new V-8 h.p. boosted to 157 and Dodge's to 193. Lincoln also showed off its 1955 model, sporting king-sized horizontal grilles and twin exhaust vents in the rear bumpers. Throughout the industry, sales were so brisk that some dealers have taken more orders for new cars in the past month than they had sold in the preceding twelve months...
...wrong babies at feeding time. At first despite hospital tests they insisted that they, had taken the right babies home to rear. Then, reluctantly, they agreed to switch. Swiss Housewife Madeleine Joye's predicament was even worse. She had no cause to suspect that one of the twins she bore on July 4, 1941 was not her son. True, Philippe grew up skinny and Paul plump: they were "as different as a cock from a rabbit." When the boys were six, Mrs. Joye met little Ernstli, a frail youngster who looked so much like Philippe that she began...