Word: allisons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sliver of extra speed cost enormous effort. The P-80R, though designed as a practical military airplane rather than a souped-up racing job, is a refinement of Lockheed's P-80 (Shooting Star). It has a thinner, broader wing, a smaller canopy than the original model. Its Allison 400 turbojet engine develops a take-off thrust of 4,600 Ibs. Half of this tremendous power is soaked up in attaining the last 70 m.p.h...
...still another story, "The Secret," by Miss Ann Allison, everything is there but that final coherence which makes a story come together. It is written well, and with a feeling for character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...
Last week the Star was in mourning. The day after its presses had rolled (after a carriers' strike), its white-haired president, Earl McCollum, had died. The man who took command last week, after briskly settling the strike, was ably affable Roy Allison Roberts, 59, the fat and florid extrovert who, as managing editor for 19 years, has been the driving force behind the strongest newspaper monopoly...
...least of the postwar player grabbers was Navy, which found it hard to go back to old ways. Virginia Military Academy charged that five of its best players, including Lynn Chewning, 1945 all-Southern Conference fullback, had been swiped by Navy. Moaned V.M.I. Coach Allison ("Pooley") Hubert: "It's rotten . . . they walked off with half my team...
Minority Rule. In Burlington, N.C., after a jury decided that Lacy Allison was not the man who stole David Latham's 16-lb. ham, unconvinced Judge Luther Hamilton ordered Allison to give it back anyway...