Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Premier Hideki Tojo shuffled his Cabinet last week and gave Japan a new Foreign Minister: wooden-legged Mamoru Shigemitsu...
This was the biggest formation ever seen of the biggest plane in the war, the Merseburg-323. The ME-323 was developed from designs for a monstrous wooden glider, with a wing span of 180 feet. Six French Gnôme-Rhône engines were added to make a plane that would carry 120 fully equipped soldiers or 20,000 Ib. of freight 450 miles at 140 miles an hour. It has ten half-sunk wheels well forward to prevent nosing over in rough landings, and the front of its fuselage can let down to take in trucks...
Shigemitsu aged, became sallow and bitter. He met one-legged U.S. Author Ellery Walter, who had mastered the use of his artificial leg so perfectly that casual observers never suspected he had it. Shigemitsu took an envious liking to Walter, learned from him how to use a wooden...
...Work. Before the war, more than half U.S. passenger-car mileage was for business purposes. As gas and rubber supplies got short and employment soared, local transit business in Charleston, S.C. skyrocketed 622% last year; in Wilmington, N.C. 522%. War workers ride to & from Baltimore and Pittsburgh suburbs on wooden benches plunked into boxcars. Yet for 1943 only 3,000 new busses have been authorized, only 220 new trolleys...
There once stood on the site of the Hall, a dwelling built by John Harvard and the meeting house where he preached. Now surrounded by a combination brick wall and wooden fence, the attractively landscaped spot will serve as a recreation center in the heart of Charlestown...