Word: breakers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smelt-like fish. Unique among marine life, they ride the surf onto sandy beaches, there to spawn and quickly go away again. The female dances on her tail, drilling a hole into the sand for her eggs, while the male flops wildly about her. The next full breaker covers the roe with sand, washes the grunion back...
...Maker & Breaker. Critic Jackson, San Francisco Chronicle book reviewer, has been a West Coast literary authority for 20 years. Now 50, he was born in New Jersey, studied at Lafayette, was a lieutenant in World War I. He got into advertising in California after the war, was editor of Sunset Magazine for eight years. In 1924 he began a weekly half- hour broadcast on books over San Francisco's station KGO which was steadily popular until he quit...
Franklin Roosevelt, inveterate precedent-breaker, will be breaking no precedent. Bearded Rutherford B. Hayes assumed the Presidency in the White House's Red Room on March 3, 1877.* And five other U.S. Presidents have taken their oaths outside the Capitol grounds: John Tyler and Andrew Johnson at Washington hotels, Chester A. Arthur at his Manhattan home, Theodore Roosevelt at the home of a Buffalo friend, and Calvin Coolidge by lamplight in his father's Vermont farmhouse...
...year-old Chemist Bradley Dewey, who as president of Boston's Dewey & Almy Chemical Co., had been working on synthetic rubber for years before he became Jeffers' right hand. There was tough Engineer Michael James ("Jack") Madigan, the New York bridge builder who became a special breaker of bottlenecks for the War Department, bulled through the no-more-changes-in-technology policy that solidified the rubber program last summer (TIME, July 20). And there were scores of others, in industry and in the Government, who anonymously got things going when bigwigs were not much help. The first butadiene...
...editions. Bound galley proofs had been auctioned for $100,000 worth of war bonds to Mr. Julius Klorfein, who also bought Jack Benny's violin for $1,000,000 in bonds (TIME, March 8). Rival publishers grudgingly guessed that the book might sell 5,000,000 copies. (Record-breaker G.W.T.W. sold 3,000,000.) Simon and Schuster feared paper problems after the first...