Word: woodenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others. He fastened deadly cyanide bombs (used thereabouts to kill coyotes) in such a way that they would spurt gas into the face of anyone who opened the doors. Mrs. Hord painted signs (including one adorned with skull and crossbones) on the fence and the heavy wooden win dow coverings, with the warning: DANGER. EXPLOSIVES SET TO KILL - KEEP...
...World War II, Japan's Ohmi Silk Spinning Co. was a down-at-heel outfit whose seven ramshackle wooden factories, taken all together, were worth less than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little...
Weather Lesson. The smallish hurricane that hit Freeport, Texas in 1949 taught them a startling lesson. The great waves rode higher than anyone dreamed they could. They twisted and smashed the steelwork of the sea rigs, and tossed heavy machines around as if they were wooden mockups...
...voodoo hills of Haiti above Port-au-Prince, a big bonfire crackled one day last week. Some 200 Haitians, dressed in their cotton Sunday best, watched intently while an old lady threw object after object into the flames-bottles to bubble when a thief is in the garden, carved wooden bowls from which to feed the gods, wanga bags to protect the traveler, love charms, colored beads, mysterious, headless dolls. Granny Holdeman was having another "burning." Granny's ceremonial burning of voodoo charms and fetishes is a potent symbol in a land where dark gods and hungry spirits sometimes...
When Alexander Smith decided to move his carpet-weaving company out of The Bronx 90 years ago, he picked the hustling little town of Yonkers, in the lower part of New York's Westchester County, for his new plant. The choice proved a good one. From a small, wooden factory, Smith expanded until he became one of the biggest employers in Yonkers.† Just before World War II employment at the plant rose to a peak of 7,000. In 1948 profits hit a high of almost $7,000,000 and the plant, sprawling over 56 acres, was known...