Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose's nightclub success only made his pinwheel imagination whir faster. Why not stage a circus in a Broadway theater? Billy hired Hecht and MacArthur to write the show, Rodgers & Hart to do the songs, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra to play them. Jimmy Durante as the star, and Broadway's biggest showcase, the Hippodrome, to house the spectacle. He called it Jumbo and induced Millionaire John Hay Whitney to back it with a down payment of $200,000. Cracked Rose: "This will either break Jock Whitney or make...
NACA says that its quiet prop is more efficient than faster, noisy propellers. (The plane equipped with it flew 5 m.p.h. faster.) NACA hopes that airplane manufacturers will adopt the design, and thus make small airfields acceptable in nicer and fussier neighborhoods. It even hints darkly of legislation making the quiet prop mandatory...
What is worse, much of the cash and gold is not in the hands of those who need it most for trade. The biggest U.S. customers are rapidly exhausting their dollar resources. The $3.75 billion loan to Britain, for example, is being eaten away so much faster than anyone had calculated that it may be spent by early next year...
...Sounds that are too high-pitched for the human ear to hear. They were once called "supersonic," but airmen, trying to fly faster than sound, stole the name...
...second glance, TIME'S jinx operated faster than ever before...