Word: size
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After listening to the squawks of World War II civilian-sailors for four long years, the Navy authorized the first basic change in the bluejacket's uniform since 1817. It ruled that in 1952 the pants of dress blues will be equipped with full-size pockets for the first time and that the 13 button-drop front (an incongruous symbol of the first 13 colonies, according to tradition) will be replaced by a zippered...
...floor of the U.S. Senate last week, two aged, reactionary spoilsmen, both vindictive, determined and ruthless, were waging a joint fight for power. Both, chip by chip, were being whittled down to size. One was 80-year-old Kenneth Douglas McKellar, the choleric Tennessee feudist who heads the all-powerful Appropriations Committee; the other was Nevada's silver-maned, silver-minded Patrick A. McCarran, 73, chairman of the scarcely less powerful Judiciary Committee...
...high-and medium-grade iron ore deposits in the U.S. will last 40 years, lower-grade ore some 600 years. Moulton also expects new deposits to be discovered. New techniques will further stretch existing supplies. Example: gas turbines are so cheap and efficient that one day a turbine the size of a dial telephone may power the American automobile...
...usable front half of each hog's pituitary is about the size of a pea. It takes 1,360 of them to make a pound, from which about 1½ grams (a third of a teaspoonful) of ACTH can be extracted in a solution and separated as a fluffy, white powder. The process is remarkably simple. But even with the cooperation of non-Armour stockyards, the Armour Laboratories can get so far only about 125,000 hog pituitaries a week-enough to make five ounces of ACTH. All the hogs slaughtered in the U.S. would not yield much more...
...Cleveland, for example, it was "nearly impossible to find attractive summer dresses ... without bobbing into one store after another. In Pittsburgh and Washington you'll likely have to look in half a dozen shops before you find [a summer suit] of acceptable size, style and price...