As a follow-up to Tuesday’s story about the origins of the word “Imagineering,” I found a January 22, 1942 article from The Cullman Banner (Cullman, Alabama). Below is an excerpt from the story as well as the story in its entirety.
New Noun – War brings new words – or bring back old ones in new attire. Remember “camouflage,” “strafing,” “canteen” and “doughboy” of World War I? Here’s a brand-new one, a child of World War II: “imagineering.” A combination of imagination and engineering, it’s defined as “the fine art of deciding where we go from here,” and it just grew (like Topsy) in the research laboratories of Aluminum Company of America.
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Word Origins: Imagineering (1940s)
