Word: chambers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swearing-in of a new Congressman is usually a ceremony as perfunctory as a politician's handshake, but this one was something special. The House gallery was packed and a battalion of photographers prowled impatiently outside the chamber. The cause of all the fuss, a suntanned young man with a face that looked familiar, stood somberly in the well of the House and responded to the oath with a quick "I do." The gallery applauded vigorously; House Democrats pushed up to pump the hand of their new colleague. Eleanor Roosevelt sat beaming in the presidential gallery, remembering (she reported...
...hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks," and in the past year antimasking ordinances had been passed in Atlanta, Columbus and Macon, Ga., Miami and Tallahassee, Fla., and a number of smaller communities. In Grand Dragon Green's home town, the fight against him had been led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Georgia Council of Churchwomen and leaders of Kiwanis, Lions, Rotary and other civic clubs. Reported Alabama's (Negro) Tuskegee Institute last week: "The better element of whites is against [the Klan] and Negroes are no longer afraid...
...town's Chamber of Commerce recently wired President Conant, beseeching him to select the cow-to-be honored...
...vanes gave so much trouble that the Viking's designers (Glenn L. Martin Co. and Reaction Motors) eliminated them entirely. The Viking's gas blast is deflected for steering purposes by tilting the whole combustion chamber from side to side...
...Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins...