Word: slenderizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months John Van Ness, 19, has fought with the Marines. When they landed on Guadalcanal, he was one of the tiny group that survived the Japs' withering cross fire on the beaches, battled for 118 days without replacement. All this his slender, greying father, Lloyd, has had in mind as he works in Curtiss-Wright's plane-propeller plant in Caldwell, N.J. Last week, Lloyd Van Ness passed his 1,000th consecutive day on the job. He has not taken a Saturday, Sunday or holiday off for nearly three years. Said Iron Man Van Ness...
...Felipe also spent 14 of his years in the U.S. waiting for the hand of Courtney Letts, a tall, dark-haired, slender member of Chicago's onetime "Big Four" of socialite beauties. Don Felipe first courted her in the '20s, but she married two wealthy Americans first. Finally, three weeks after her second divorce, Courtney Letts Stillwell Borden became Senora de Espil, who in turn became one of the world's ten best-dressed women, and an able diplomat herself...
...though Phil Murray and his largest member union differed in detail, they were agreed on the main point. Summed up slender, serious Victor Reuther, U.A.W. resolutions chairman: "I do not believe that labor should make a blind date...
Westinghouse has solved a delicate problem in electronic tube-making. A steel splinter used to be thrust into each tiny coiled filament for support while it was welded. But removing the steel support afterward was difficult. Now a slender stick of raw spaghetti, turned out to a thousandth-of-an-inch accuracy, takes the steel's place. After the coil is welded, an electric current burns up the spaghetti core in a flash. For this ingenious idea, which cuts filament-assembly time from five minutes to one, Westinghouse Engineer William A. Hayes got a WPB award of Individual Production...
These straws were slender, inconclusive. The full effect of the tax cannot be computed for some months. But the drift is plain. The fat pocketbooks of the U.S. are as yet unaffected...