Word: brush
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever flaws they may pick in the plan, however much they may dislike labor's brashness in offering to help them run their business, steelmen, with the calculating eye of the Administration upon them, are not likely to brush the plan aside. (Several steelmen cooperated with Mr. Murray in his survey.) In one respect steelmen can feel pleased: it is a notable change for the better that labor should show eagerness not only to make demands for itself but to face the industry's problems...
Dear Father: We had a grand day on Friday with three patrols. On the first we had a glorious dogfight with about nine Messerschmitt nos which caught a proper pasting. I must admit that they were heavily outnumbered. On the second trip we had an uneventful brush with some Messerschmitt 1095. It was the last trip which was the most fun. About twelve Junkers type 88 bombers came in and, after losing two from anti-aircraft fire, were set on by some Hurricanes. As we climbed up to them we had the pleasure of seeing one dart past us, hotly...
...rain, then at 6:45 p.m. happily down to a shallow lake on Richard King's Santa Fe Ranch near Edinburg, 80 miles southwest of Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring and Lamesa, Tex., 450 miles away...
Last week many a laborite, many an other citizen simply concerned for defense, boiled & roiled over the cold shoulder which Washington seemed to give ClOman Walter Reuther's plan for planes (TIME, Dec. 30). President Roosevelt gave it a polite brush-off at his press conference, indicating that Mr. Reuther's proposal to use idle automobile capacity for aircraft manufacture was just another idea. From the National Defense Advisory Commission, whence any action would have to come, there was nary a peep. Automakers in Detroit said nothing, inspired thumbs-down stories in the press...
Like a Fuller Brush salesman, Mr. Madigan has been canvassing the little towns behind the Berkeley hills, touting his track to Lions clubs and other horse-hungry groups. Among the novelties he touted: a towering, three-tiered grandstand (only one in the U. S.), with a clear view of the finish line from every one of its 13,000 seats; a saddling paddock in front instead of behind the grandstand; a circular bar (with free hors d'oeuvres at 4 o'clock sharp) overlooking San Francisco Bay; "elephant trains," salvaged from the Exposition's dismantled Treasure Island...