Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Ford assigned his crack speedster to run the job at Willow Run: hard-boiled Vice President Charles E. Sorensen, who is also the doctor in aircraft-engine building and all the other Ford production projects. Last week three-quarters of the steelwork on Willow Run's vast plant (275 acres of floor space) was finished. Bricklaying was well under way, and under gaunt girders workmen were installing machinery. Alongside, workmen were inlaying the turf with the seven great runways of a new airport...
...Gregory could see the handwriting on the wall last spring when 30% of his construction job was taken away from him. The 30% was construction of Air Corps facilities and Atlantic bases. He could see more of the fateful hand writing when his construction division was placed under a crack Engineer: slim, 49-year-old Brigadier General Brehon Somervell...
...Sand Point Naval Air station on Lake Washington, Seattle, one grey afternoon last week the Navy fired four revolver shots that splattered dangerously close around a speedboat carrying Seattle Times Reporter Paul O'Neil and crack Photographer Harold F. Smith. Excuse was that they slipped in too close to Navy hangars while maneuvering for pictures of one of the Soviet planes carrying the Russian flying mission. The photographer had to get between the plane and the land in order not to get the naval station, a "naval secret," in the background of the picture. When the occupants...
...playing in California this summer. The London quartet's last two violinists, tall John Pennington and deadpan Thomas W. Petre have been playing in cinema studio orchestras. Only dapper William Primrose had far to travel for the reunion-from Manhattan, where he is the NBC Symphony's crack viola player...
Closest crony and bitterest critic of Director La Cava, now 49, is another unreconstructed Hollywoodian, one W. C. Fields. Fields refers to La Cava as The Wop. La Cava's nickname for the comedian is unprintable. Crack golfers, they used to play for $100 a hole. Fields, who says he would cheat his own grandmother for cash, generally managed to talk his opponent out of match and stakes. He has willed him (although La Cava doesn't know it) $5,000 for mad money...