Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents" in the war-Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow and U.A.W. President Walter Reuther-had decided that they didn't want their articles reprinted...
...responsible for Georgia's clucking, cackling boom is Jesse D. Jewell, 49, who started raising chickens in a rickety wooden shed, 16 years ago. Today, with 2,000,000 chickens under his wing, Jesse Jewell, according to trade-association estimates, is the biggest U.S. chicken raiser. Every week, 30 carloads of chicken feed, worth $90,000, roll into Jewell's Gainesville headquarters; every week 150,000 chickens, killed and dressed, roll out to U.S. and foreign outlets. Last year Jewell grossed $12 million...
...fast and just as accurately as the Army's standard 30-cal. M-1 Garand rifle. At 100 yds., their steel-core slugs plowed through half-inch armor plate; at 1,200 yds. they riddled a steel helmet; at 2,000 yds. they ripped through six inches of wooden planking. Fitted with 20-shot clips, the new automatic rifles could rattle off their entire magazines in less than two seconds. When the demonstration was over, even such hard-to-please riflemen as Hatcher and Edson agreed that the U.S. had developed a first-rate new infantry weapon...
...Cheatham went right on picking up bargains with surplus cash. He bought a $2,000,000 plywood plant for the distress price of $300,000, snagged the Acme Door Corp. for less than its net asset value. It now accounts for 5% of all U.S. sales of wooden doors...
...nearly 30 years the little mummy lay in the museum on a bed of naphthalene crystals in a cheap, brown-stained wooden box. Its rusted cloth wrappings were worm-eaten and frayed with age. The exposed face and head were blackened by the embalming process. Because the name was translated as Diana, Vancouver's schoolchildren were led to believe that their favorite exhibition was once a young girl...