Word: walnut
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acute shortage of coffins. Some said the supply would last only six weeks, others thought about four months. The trouble began last summer when WPB banned metal coffins, forced all manufacturers to wood. Since then things have gone from bad to worse-coffin makers cannot get standard woods like walnut, mahogany or redwood, must use soft pine and poplar. New kilns for wood drying are not available ; coffin workers are romping off to war plants (one Pennsylvania outfit has already lost 35% of its employes). Unless WPB soon eases its restrictions, most undertakers will have to go back...
This official biography, by the Dublin scholar Joseph Hone, is not by a good deal as great as its subject. Its polished-walnut elegance gives way now to dullness, now to Irish fanciness; its irony and its tact might occasionally have given way to blunter judgment. It goes into local minutiae tiresome to any save the hottest Hibernians. Its biographer cannot with detachment examine Yeats. Yet the book is so rich in its detailing of a significant life, and of the remarkable people who surrounded and shaped it, that it is unlikely that a more valuable work on Yeats will...
Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...
...quiet Brother John ("Old Jack") Webb was the greatest teacher Dr. Rice ever met. Webb had a wisdom bump on his forehead the size of half a walnut, used to sit talking to himself and trimming his grey beard with pocket scissors. He taught Greek, English, history, math, everything -sitting in a split-bottom chair and gently posing riddles to his pupils. Says Dr. Rice: "More Rhodes Scholars came from Webb School than from any other in the world...
...then Fant turns up, a love-hungry fugitive, among the tobacco leaves. There are trysts like "that moonless July night, when Fant's whistle had wooed her out to the walnut grove." Two daughters are the result of these whistles. In their wake comes ostracism. For nobody on earth must know that hunted murderer Fant is still alive...