Word: contractions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he was 19, he went to Turin to take his final examinations. He flunked, so he walked over to the opera house, asked for an audition, and got a contract...
When he got home, "I presented my father with the contract instead of my marks. He was delighted. He forgave...
...high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...
...English fields, asked the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to work out a blind-landing system. They developed the idea with practical help on production problems from Gilfillan engineers. The first G.C.A. was a cumbersome rig, with 705 radio and cathode-ray tubes, but it worked. Gilfillan got a contract to make 112; the Navy ordered another 80 units from a competitor. Gilfillan says he hustled out his 100th unit while his competitor was on his fifth. Yet he charged the Government only a 1.1% profit (virtually a West Coast record in self-denial) and turned back...
Though the contract is not exclusive, MacNider said, WHRV is the only station in New England which will broadcast the summaries. They will supplement and not replace the Network's regular Associated Press coverage, he continued...