Word: cools
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yorkers, whom Mr. LaGuardia had been advising to keep calm & cool, decided that it was time Butch took some of his own advice. His friendliest critics, the Manhattan press went to work swatting the Mayor's bottom, a new experience for New York's little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram...
...years Hong Kong had stood handsomely for the Imperial Way of Life. The Happy Valley Race Course was smooth and fast. The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull. Shops bore names that circled the rim of Empire: Kelly & Walsh sold Britons their books, Whiteaway & Laidlaw sold them practically everything else. The white monolithic skyscraper of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank dominated the island's waterfront as it dominated Britain's Pacific Empire, looking down upon the lesser establishments of Jardine, Matheson...
...arrived safely in San Francisco last week after a hazardous journey by plane from Chungking to Manila, by ship from Manila to Hawaii, through the sub marine-infested Pacific in the first convoy to reach the West Coast since the Japanese attack. Captured last summer in the cool hills of inner China, they are presented to the U.S. by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek in gratitude for the activities of United China Relief. In a new, barless $15,000 home at New York City's Bronx Zoo, the new pandas will be weaned from bamboo shoots to a diet...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...
Southern got its membership the hard way. Mired during the depression, it borrowed $31,405,000 from RFC. Things got better and in 1936-40 Southern earned a cool $18,457,000. But its management plugged its ears against the squawks of dividendless shareholders (the last Southern dividend was in 1931), used these profits to pay debts. RFC was paid in full in May 1941, three years ahead of time...