Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid, greater than Berlin experienced in its last raid March 1. That raid, according to Swedish press correspondents, killed 2,000 and damaged many important buildings, including Luftwaffe headquarters. This one was bigger. Aside from morale and Government buildings, Berlin offered important industrial targets: Europe's largest brake factory in suburban Lichtenberg, the huge concentration of iron, steel, electrical-equipment, locomotive and tank factories at Spandau, aircraft and chemical plants in other suburbs. The first Swedish reports indicated that the industrial areas felt the main weight of the raid...
Once there was a brand new 105M Howitzer, with a smooth hydropneumatic recoil and a lovely electric brake and a perfect panoramic sight. All the generals and all the men said, oh, what a nice new howitzer, it is just what we have needed, we are glad the government has sent...
...experimental composers as Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison, was played last week by John Cage's orchestra of eleven, dressed in tails or black evening gowns. They used thundersheets, oxen bells, cowbells, cymbals, anvils, gongs, woodblocks, rice bowls, button gongs, rattles, claves, maracas, drums, flowerpots, tin cans, automobile brake drums. They not only tapped and beat their instruments, but shook and rubbed them and sometimes even immersed them in water...
...liberal arts and survey courses, in which English A training has always played its most important role, are not among these fields of special wartime interest. To hinder, rather than free the choice and progress of the new class in its scientific concentration is to apply one annoying brake on an educational machine that is trying on the whole to accelerate...
...from being a bad thing, an overall rise in interest rates might help in this bond-selling job, though voluntary campaigns will almost certainly not be enough. To put a further brake on consumer spending the Government will have to rely heavily on forced savings (now implicit in the Victory tax), combined with much higher and broader regular taxes. Thus the U.S. is about to follow the lead of Britain which long ago discovered that forced savings are a vital part of wartime financing...