Word: tricks
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Rubber could no longer be taken for granted in 1940. Standard Oil and Goodrich built plants to make synthetic rubber (which is no trick) and to make it cheaply and in tonnage (which is). Meanwhile, among hundreds of unsung corporate pioneers, Champion Paper & Fibre made newsprint from Southern pine, and Dow Chemical extracted magnesium from the sea water that laps Freeport, Tex. What may yet prove the year's most useful discovery was less romantic: at South Bend, Studebaker was testing out a turret-lathe that could turn one shell a minute...
...pictures from Buenos Aires as far as New York, where they were promptly frozen as part of the assets of France. Stymied, Director Heil started sending letters to Congressmen, even to President Roosevelt. Last month a plea to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau finally turned the trick, and Walter Heil got the pictures to San Francisco...
...Greek general sent for some of the few British Blenheims available to him. They arrived in time, knocked out a bridge over which the Italians must pass, machine-gunned the halted column on the far side. Only one of the three Blenheims returned from that foray but the trick was turned...
Featuring the Thespian artistry of Roger B. Merriman '96, professor of History, in a leading comic role, Eliot House will present Thomas Middleton's Elizabethan comedy "A Trick to Catch the Old One," on Wednesday night, December 18, at 8 o'clock in the House Dining Room...
Without suitable material, of course, Shaughnessy could never have turned the trick. The classic, old T formation, revived and effectively used by the professional Chicago Bears (whom Shaughnessy used to watch with envious eyes during his seven frustrated years as University of Chicago coach), requires three fast-starting backs. Stanford's Norman Standlee, Frankie Albert and Pete Kmetovic filled the requirement...