Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last year the Alaska Highway brought briskness to Editor Moore's idyllic retreat. Thousands of inflooding U.S. Army engineers and private construction workers transformed Whitehorse into something unreal. Circulation of the Star did not zoom: there are still only some 600 Stargazers. But the job printing orders went up like a rocket. Officers and contractors now bang on the Star's door with orders for letterheads, record forms, tickets, contracts, etc., in thousands...
Then, while their wives cling to one another in a dreary hotel room, the boys zoom off for combat overseas. Winged Victory ends in the South Pacific, with a Jap raid that explodes upon a camp Christmas shindig, sends the flyers into action...
...also the direct result of years of open-armed favoritism to labor, of years in which every attempt to make unions responsible had been defeated. Every part of the mess was linked. The miners had some justice on their side; if prices had not been allowed to zoom up by Administration dillydallying on price control, the miners would have had no case...
Each morning company guards pluck children from mothers' sides as they pass the plant gates. Eight and a half hours daily the moppets play, snooze, ingest assorted vitamins, watch test planes zoom by. Mothers pay 50? a day for food, Curtiss-Wright pays the overhead. Beamed one mother recently: "It's marvelous for Terry.. He eats his squash and tomato now without trouble and can even tie his shoes...
...Chicago, Continental Roll & Steel Foundry has upped production 20% with 200 workable employe suggestions since January. Elgin Watch Co. (at Elgin and Aurora, Ill.) has seen its fuse plant zoom to 65% above its production quota in the two months its shop committee has been in existence. Aurora's Independent Pneumatic Tool Co. has seen a 21% production increase, is hauling in 100 new production ideas a week-and paying for good ones at the low rate of one $5 defense stamp apiece, because the committee asked the company not to pay more...