Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Less elastic and flexible than natural rubber, synthetic treads crack, chip and separate more quickly, have poor resistance to heat. In truck tires, even when mixed with 20-30% of natural rubber, synthetic rubber heats up badly, has a record of frequent blowouts...
...Cure. Prohibition was tried in one province, did not work. The evils of alcohol were taught to school children. Health laws were used to crack down on the worst pulquerias. (Fortnight ago, 13 brigades of 20 women each made the rounds of Mexico City's worst dives, got police to jail 380 proprietors for violations, dump 140,000 gallons of illicit pulque down the sewers.) But the best chance of smashing the pulque trade seems to be to divert it to beer. Mexican beer is among the world's best. And since 1932, the beer industry has persuaded...
Anne Mary Kilmer, four-year-old granddaughter of Soldier-Poet Joyce (Trees), daughter of Kenton, Washington librarian, managed to crack a bottle of champagne across the bow of the Liberty ship Joyce Kilmer in Baltimore...
Marauder (Martin B-26). One of the fastest of mediums, the B-26 has been denounced as tricky and unreliable. Actually it is a crack performer in the hands of an experienced pilot, has had an especially good record in the European Theater, where fields are good, runways long and smooth. But because it is expensive to make, to maintain, and because manufacturing space is needed for a new type, its production is being reduced and it will work only in theaters to which it is specifically adapted...
...farm boy, his parents wanted him to be a preacher. He compromised by joining Evangelist Billy Sunday, and learned from him the technique of the freehanded overstatement. Later, May took a two-week course in "business engineering," and went to work as an efficiency expert. Soon he was a crack salesman of efficiency systems and able to set up for himself in Chicago in 1925. His sales clincher: "If you will let us put in a production-control system, about all you will have to do, Mr. President, is come down and open the mail and go home...