Ground Zero; Flying Saucer; Mazda Lane; Hillbilly; T-Bone Steak; Luncheonette

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   A few other items today, from NEW YORK TIMES full text.
   I was surprised and pleased to meet Beverly Flanagan at the library.  Just
as she had left, David Shulman remembered his work on "in again, out again
Flanagan."  I think I'd posted that here, from a sports broadcaster.

GROUND ZERO
   30 June 1946, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 3:
   "The most instructive fact at Nagasaki was the survival, even when near
ground zero (the spot below which the bomb exploded) of the few hundred
people who were properly placed in the tunnel shelters, though unoccupied,
stood up well in both cities."
(The OED's first citation for "ground zero" is the NEW YORK TIMES of July 7,
1946.  This is the same date that James Landau found for this term--ed.)

FLYING SAUCER
   6 July 1947, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 80 headline:
   Those Flying Saucers.
(OED has 8 July 1947.  The earliest "UFO"/"unidentified flying object" is
from an ad in 11 October 1953, pg. BR12, for Major Donald E. Keyhoe's book,
FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER SPACE--ed.)\

MAZDA LANE
   25 November 1928, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. X2:
   Here, free from Mazda Lane's monoxide scent, without New York's huge
profit and huge rent...
(Cited in a long poem.  "Mazda Lane" was another name for the "Great White
Way."  It comes from the General Electric "Mazda" lights.  "Mazda" is the
Iranian god of light.  The term is not recorded in the RHHDAS?--ed.)

HILLBILLY
   22 November 1896, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 4.
(OED and the RHHDAS have 1900 for "hillbilly"?  Here it is the name of a
horse in the second race at New Orleans--ed.)

T-BONE STEAK
   12 November 1911, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. X10:
   "He has had two porterhouse steaks, boiled salmon, ham and eggs, three
oyster stews, sand-dabs, chops, and now he wants a T-bone steak--and all in
an hour!--San Francisco Chronicle.
(OED and John Mariani date "T-bone steak" to 1916.  I stumbled upon T-bone
while looking for Tenderloin--ed.)

LUNCHEONETTE
   18 November 1913, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. 13:
   How is the help of a soda-fountain and luncheonette department charged,
such as waitresses, cooks, etc., to expense or merchandise?
(OED has 1924 for "luncheonette"--ed.)

MULLIGAN
   12 December 1911, NEW YORK TIMES, pg. ?:
   Gove. Oddie, the tall, ruddy-faced, bald-headed, and genial Governor of
Nevada, made the first response.  He made himself popular right off by
calling attention to the fact that he was born in New York City and that he
has been away only twelve years.  He told of the opportunities of Nevada, and
invited the entire student body to emigrate out there and grow up with the
country, but that if they did come he warned them to be prepared to work in
overalls and eat "mulligan."
   "A mulligan," he said, "is the last meal in camp when you are sixty or
more miles from the nearest town.  When there is not enough of anything to
make even half a meal, why then everything that is left is dumped into the
pot and cooked, and the outcome is what we in Nevada call a mulligan.  One of
my first experiences in Nevada was grief over the loss of a mulligan, which,
when our backs were turned, was eaten by an old gray mare."
(OED has 1904 for "mulligan," but the quotation here refers to 1899 and
mentions that it is a Nevada dish.  I had previously posted a California
citation from about this time--ed.)

JOIN THE ARMY/NAVY AND SEE THE WORLD
   I had hoped that full text would solve this mystery, but there's nothing
before 1920.
1 October 1922, pg. 116--"Join the Army and see the world."
13 December 1924, pg. 1--"Join the Navy and see the world."
   The story in the second citation indicates that it's a long-established
publicity slogan.
(O.T.:  Is either the army or the navy going to Mongolia or Tibet?)