Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nelson Rockefeller, Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, got $10,000,000 from RFC to build 100 wooden sailing vessels for the Latin American trade (TIME, June...
...main event, the 60-yd. obstacle run, is the most grueling thing in the preflight program. Its 25 obstacles include: a ten-foot wall, a wide trap of knee-deep sand, a maze, a ditch that must be jumped and another (hedge-bound) that cannot be jumped, a long wooden tube through which cadets must crawl, a towering pile of loose logs that shift underfoot, a timber "jungle trap" arranged in a 20-ft. cube. By the time a cadet is ready to graduate, he must be able to finish this course in four minutes flat. At North Carolina...
...here is a firsthand picture of a Bomber Command unit. Quarters are in a hundreds -of -years -old. many-roomed, thick, crenelated-walled home and on the large, lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army's batman system are now considering adopting it, since it is inefficient that an officer should spend...
...industry's mental processes. Before Pearl Harbor no profit-minded synthetic producer in his right mind was working on anything but how to make a product enough better than natural rubber to justify its higher cost. After Pearl Harbor the industry suddenly saw that anything better than a wooden wheel was worth going after. Two major events last week illuminated that change in direction...
Typical of the converted plants was the Moller pipe-organ factory. Not a few of its hands were hired by old Mathias Peter Moller Sr. 30 and 40 years ago. Now they fashion wooden training-plane wings, finished exquisitely as only sparse-thatched, hump-shouldered cabinetmakers can finish them...