Word: modernly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...from ports and turrets. On the shoulders of their dungareed, helmeted gargoyles was the Army's newest emblem: a black tank tread, superimposed on a tricolored triangle of yellow (for cavalry), scarlet (for field artillery) and blue (for infantry). For tanks are only the armored hearts of a modern, mechanized division; each has in addition a regiment of motorized (truck-borne) infantry, another of motor-drawn artillery, and a profusion of ex-cavalry officers...
...betel nut, waders in rice paddies, to whom the West has been exposed for little more than a decade and to whom western ways are still highly adventurous. Even in Thai cities, the old and new live in exuberant competition. Bangkok's harbor is busy with superb modern port construction; but workers and engineers engaged on it prostrate themselves before Buddha. Conductors of streetcars are likely suddenly to stop their cars and relieve themselves behind the nearest hedge. Little boys of the ultramodern, totalitarian youth movement, Yuvachon, are forced to wear shoes to drill, but on the way home...
...industrial research. When he found that he really had a free hand, he took on the G. E. experiment as a full-time job. Things began to hum. The basic experiments of William Coolidge on tungsten, of Irving Langmuir on gas-filled (instead of evacuated) bulbs led to modern electric lamps. The Coolidge and Langmuir experiments also produced high-power X-ray tubes, portable X-ray sets, high-capacity electronic tubes...
...aircraft industry was young, had never been weaned from the Government teat. When 1940's orders poured in, it almost choked to death. Its product had revolutionized the world's ideas of speed; it production methods had not caught up with modern standards of speed in production...
...years steel's most spectacular moneymaker was cigar-chewing Ernest Weir, whose modern mills put competition back into the steel business. In 1940 he yielded his news value to others. Mr. Weir is a salesman, and in 1940's market all the salesmen went fishing. It was a productionman's show. Shrewd Old Dealer Eugene Grace opened his mouth just wide enough to lap up the cream of the business. He also took the lead in cooperating with the New Deal's exhortations to expand: $100,000,000 worth, half of which was Government money...