Word: braked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...
...plan would be voluntary; employers would contribute the whole fund; and the Treasury would get the money now, when it needs it. The plan also included a neat inflation brake: although there would be no deduction from current wages, 75% of all wage increases would go into the fund, to be paid when the certificates are cashed after the war. Mr. Ferguson disclaimed knowledge of J. M. Keynes's wage-deferment plan in England, to which his project bore a striking resemblance...
...steel. It is not as strong as the same weight of an aluminum-base alloy (using .5% magnesium and 95% aluminum, making duralumin). Consequently airplane parts, where strength is important, are principally made of aluminum-base alloys, and Dowmetal is used primarily for engine castings, doors, hatches, floors, seats, brake assemblies, etc. Aluminum is usually used with some percentage of magnesium-partly for greater strength and partly because magnesium makes aluminum easier to work. Wherever strength is not essential the lighter magnesium gets the call...
...Nazis. Foreign Minister Shigenori Togo even has a German wife. However, the new cabinet has not committed itself to a definite program but will probably watch developments in Eastern Russia very carefully. The last vestige of any friends-with-the-U.S. sentiment has disappeared with Konoye, the brake is off, and the road has been cleared for a drive on Vladivostok, Singapore, or the Dutch East Indies. The streamlined Tojo cabinet is designed to eliminate those precious moments of discussion between the soldiery and the government which always prevent immediate action when the opportunity arises...
...starting Crimson line-up will probably be Captain Jack Pension in the goal; fullbacks Bob Harrison and Hole Taylor or Killam, at the halves Truscoll, Mycrson, and Slingerland, outsides Herkovitz and Poor, insides Neff and Brake, and Sawbill at center forward...