Word: shop
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...aircraft and a wicked-looking 37-rnm. (about 1½-inch) cannon. Since then the assembly line has turned them out with increasing regularity. A. C. F. drivers take the tanks for 40-m.p.h. trial runs, see that their Continental airplane-type engines function, bring them back to the shop for final adjustment down to close tolerances (1/10,000 of an inch) before marking them ready for delivery. To the officers of the new Armored Corps, anxious to start training their men in new equipment, new Panzer tactics, A. C. F.'s tank-production line was just what...
...servant deemed unworthy of his post, and stipulated that Government jobs or commissions in the Army and Navy could be held henceforth only by persons whose fathers were French citizens. The word "Jew" was not mentioned in a single decree, but "Jews not wanted" signs began to appear in shop windows...
Many an oldtime whiskey tenor crouched closer to his radio one night last week. Reason: the finals of the Second Annual National Championship for Barber Shop Quartets, broadcast from the New York World's Fair. All week winners of sectional contests had crooned, bleated and harmonized before a tableful of solemn judges. The performance to beat, all knew, was the precise, satin-smooth Just a Dream of You and Mandy Lee of last year's champs, the mustachioed, white-aproned Phillips "66" Barflies of Bartlesville, Okla. Most favored challengers were the Flat Foot Four, a quartet of Oklahoma...
Sponsor of this contest was the Society for the Preservation & Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. No mere anything-for-a-laugh letterhead organization, the S. P. E. B. S. Q. S. A. takes itself fairly seriously. Heart and founder of the organization is its Permanent Third Assistant Temporary Vice Chairman, bland, round-faced Tulsa oilman Owen Clifton ("O. C.") Cash. Long addicted to informal harmonization with friends, Barbershopper Cash applied in May 1938 for a corporate charter in Oklahoma, proclaimed: "In this age of dictators and government control of everything, about the only privilege guaranteed...
Three days later a slim, elegant little Chinese newsman, Samuel Chang, sat down to tiffin in a German tea shop on Bubbling Well Road. Up stepped a stranger, whipped out two guns, and pumped four shots into Samuel Chang's back. Then the assassin rushed into the street, followed by another patron. Turning, he put two bullets in his pursuer's stomach, and fled. Newsman Chang died instantly, his champion (a Pole named Vladislav Krasson) an hour later. A graduate of Columbia University's School of Journalism, 40-year-old Samuel Chang was a director...