Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help but regard this turned-about state of affairs as most delightful. The U.S. was indeed the promised land-for men. How different, he exclaimed wistfully, were things in China: "In Chungking, boy students running after girl students find it a very hard job indeed. A boy would often exhaust the strength of nine oxen and two tigers and still not succeed. If their endeavors were used in America, American girls would consider them as most ideal sweethearts...
...first commercial transport which Convair has sold, is still in the design stage, will not be ready for delivery until 1947. It will be a short-haul, 40-passenger plane in the 300-mile-an-hour class. Unusual features: specially designed engine exhaust stacks which will provide jet assistance; passenger entrance near the nose through a door with a built-in ramp. With the 240, American Airlines hopes to make a "good approach" to 3?-a-mile air service...
...tons. (1944 consumption: 89,500 tons.) During the first six months of 1945, tin was disappearing at "an even greater rate." War's end did not help: as military demand lessened, civilian demand soared. Warned WPB: unrestricted consumption "might easily reach a 120,000-ton rate and [exhaust] reserve stocks in a very short period...
...beyond Michigan City. A few miles back, the Empire Builder's second section was coming in out of the east. A flagman ran the few hundred yards back to Michigan City to flag it, but he never made it. Section 2 hit the Michigan City curve with its exhaust drumming, plowed slam-bang into Section...
...capital's hush every sound was audible-the twitter of birds in new-leafed shade trees; the soft, rhythmic scuffing of massed, marching men in the street; the clattering exhaust of armored scout cars moving past, their machine guns cocked skyward. And the beat of muffled drums. As Franklin Roosevelt's flag-draped coffin passed slowly by on its black caisson, the hoofbeats of the white horses, the grind of iron-rimmed wheels on pavement overrode all other sounds...