Word: bend
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
Back to clothes: everybody was wearing those lovely crinkly grey fiannel trousers effects, and I saw oodles of the smart new leather elbow patches. I suppose those boys have to bend their elbows...
...landed on both sides of the town and surrounded it, were French colonial troops from garrisons in Equatorial Africa, led by "criminal former officers." They had some bombers and made things hot for defenders under General Tenu, the colony's vice governor, who announced: "Nothing will make us bend our knee...
Cartoonist Percy Crosby ("Skippy"): "The only time I ever shall bend a knee to a third-term impostor will be before a firing squad...
...bend on Florida's wide, meandering, moss-fringed St. Johns River, where once only loglike alligators drowsed, a big bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked...