Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked up through the clogged air and saw faded crimson jerseys, 90 of them to be exact, stretched taut over shoulder pads and often just as taut over bulging stomachs...
Problem: how to make a jet engine work under water. Solution: make it use a fuel that burns in water instead of in air...
...first lap of the postwar international air race, Britain had bet on the long-beaked Avro Tudor. Britain hoped the Tudor would help the nation get by without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...Kent, 75, multimillionaire radio manufacturer; in Los Angeles. The first big-time radio sponsor (Atwater Kent Hour), he got his start making electrical equipment for automobiles, switched to radios in 1922, did an estimated $60 million worth of business in 1929. He retired in 1936 and moved to Bel Air, where his lavish parties won him the name of "Mr. Host...
...Seeker reads somewhat like any other frontier novel, with Martin Arrowsmith cast as Anthony Adverse. When a revival meeting comes to Adams, however, and Aaron, aged 25, finds himself at the mourners' bench without quite knowing how he got there, the book takes on a distinctive air that makes it unusual among drum-and-petticoat books and also among Lewis' own 20 previous novels. Aaron Gadd tries to be a Christian...