Word: waterous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came Treasurer George F. Addes with his annual report. U.A.W.'s war chest, he reported, had skidded into the red from a $2 million backlog on V-E day. The union was now "barely able to keep its head above water with increased dues from its decreased peacetime membership. And U.A.W. had also cashed in 3,000 in Government bonds...
King of the Kitchen. His passionate people sometimes wish that he were a crook or a Casanova, a gambler or a drunk -it would be better than his correct futility. But George drinks mineral water with his meals, dislikes cards, is circumspect with women. At 31, he married beautiful Princess Elizabeth of Rumania, whose domestic accomplishments (embroidery, watercolors and cookery) distinguished her from her flamboyant mother, the late Queen Marie. Nevertheless, George's marriage ended in divorce in 1935 (Elizabeth now lives in Rumania and reportedly has grown very fat). A minimum of gossip has attended George...
...long been looking hungrily at records. The business was a jungle full of small fry (some 230 manufacturers), lorded over by Victor. Decca and Columbia. The fry was numerous enough and appetizing enough to make Leo's mouth water. With 5,000,000 record-players (including 500,000 jukeboxes) in use throughout the U.S., the industry sold 287 million records in 1946, expects to do nearly twice as well...
...experimenters had to invent a fiendishly ingenious gadget for keeping their rats awake. Cylindrical treadmills revolved slowly in cells half full of water. If the rat did not keep awake, he got dunked and had to scramble back...
...test of a rat's mentality is to put him in an intricate maze half full of water, observe how quickly he finds his way out. After 50 days, the wakeful rats were dumped in such a maze. They swam feverishly, caught on to the maze, got out even faster than normal rats...