Word: constantly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bases, refueled and checked, the planes are ready to go again before their tuckered-out crews are rested. Admiral Towers would like to have two and even three crews for each boat. Similarly, he wants to have complete reserve units of crews-&-planes for his carriers (a week of constant, hazardous carrier flying can pretty well exhaust pilots...
Father of all precision tools is the Johansson gauge block, invention of a Swedish genius, now made in the U.S. exclusively by Ford. With surfaces finished to an accuracy (at a constant temperature of 68° F.) within two-millionths of an inch, these blocks maintain the accuracy of micrometers and other gauges down to a ten-thousandth of an inch, thus make possible the interchangeability of parts, essence of mass production. Today, with production booming, the "Jo" blocks, always scarce, are spread as thin as management itself. Last week a lone machinist in a privy-sized Cleveland shop...
...constant sources of wonder about the 1941 crew is the presence of a slightly-built sophomore in the vital number seven position. It is his duty to pick up the beat from the stroke and pass it down through the starboard side of the boat, and the man to whom this job falls this year is Dave Challinor, a St. Paul's product, as the majority of sweep-swingers seem...
...hours. Alone, Mitchell fought the fire till the flames crackled near a terrified ewe, who tried to shield her lamb. He seized the lamb and rushed through the smoke, followed by the baaing mamma, left them in an open field which was eerily lighted by fires and constant explosions. Six times he returned to the blazing pens, took the lambs in his arms and coaxed the panic-stricken ewes to follow...
...also denies that Belle Starr (originally Myra Belle Shirley) committed any worse crimes than larceny and mischievous arson. She loved horses and firearms and handled them admirably, was a constant consort of outlaws, but apparently never killed anyone herself. Not even her most ardent admirers called her handsome...