Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atomic Power. General Electric Co. announced that it will build an experimental atomic power plant to be completed in two to five years. In the plant G.E. hopes to use heat from atomic fission to run electric generating equipment. The builder: the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, which G.E. operates for the Atomic Energy Commission. The place: a secret...
...give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
...Forms. The-Treasury Department ruled out further use of the withholding tax receipt as a "simplified" tax return form for incomes of $5,000 or less. Reason: this "simplified" form (called W2) had proved "too confusing." To replace it, the Treasury is revising the 1040-A "short form...
...from London, lives "sentimental, affectionate, uncritical Mrs. Brocken," together with mementos of her younger years and miscellaneous members of her family. Mrs. Brocken "had adored her husband and was very fond of her French peppermill. An old watering-can was dear to her because she remembered seeing the gardener use it on her mother's rose-beds, and a new alarm-clock, because it was so nice and bright. She had thus many small sources of pleasure, inoperative perhaps on deeper intellects, which, added together, made a sort of comfortable wooly garment for her mind...
...Great Worry." Skipper Davies of the shallow-draught paddle-minesweeper Oriole was a typical example. On arriving at Dunkirk, he saw instantly that his best bet was to run Oriole full-tilt right on to the beach, so that the soldiers might use her as a gangway to the numerous ships that could not enter shallow water. In one day, 3,000 men walked to safety over Oriole; and Skipper Davies, having proved his hunch, radioed defiantly to the Admiralty: "[Have] deliberately grounded ... on own initiative . . . Refloated dusk same day . . . Am again proceeding Belgian coast and will again run aground...