Word: clips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deliveries; it calls for action in any sudden civilian crisis (such as the Eastern fuel shortage), involves umpiring any major dispute between warring Government agencies. It touches U.S. economic life at its periphery and at its core, in a year when that life is rolling along at the fastest clip in history...
...tell still others that silly rumor they were excited about was only a silly rumor, pay bills, wash forms, distribute type, solicit job printing, pacify irate subscribers whose paper failed to arrive, pay bills, edit bungled copy, collect bills, pay bills, sort mail, scan the exchanges and maybe clip an item...
...Francisco the keepers tried to force a mate on Bill, the polar bear. "She would fiddle with doilies, empty ash trays, wash out his briar pipe with soap and water. . . . When she started hanging his ties on a patented, nickel-plated cedarwood tie rack [with] an automatic clip-shift tie release," Bill murdered her. Author Thurber loves Bill...
...when he whooshed down slopes and tramped the peaks on snowshoes. Last week, somewhere in the West, he plodded up a narrow mountain path, holding the bridle of an opinionated mule. The view he saw was mostly the rump of the mule ahead; the sounds he heard were the clip-clip-clop of mule hoofs, labored breathing, an occasional heavy stumble over stone...
...fast as they come off production lines-a minimum of 300 by Christmas. Said General George: "The only limit is [the airlines'] ability to expand." Biggest immediate addition will be scores of sturdy, twin-engined Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...