Word: fastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Certain statements attributed to me are completely unjustifiable. For example: "Dr. McFarland concludes that modern planes . . . are . . . a generally unsatisfactory means of travel." Further on: "The airplane itself is a menace to health, McFarland thinks." The article is concluded: "Anyway, 300 m.p.h., he thinks, is plenty fast enough." These statements do not represent my views and I doubt that they can be substantiated or inferred from the book [Human Factors in Air Transport Design] unless statements have been taken out of context or distorted by the reviewer's own interpretation...
...more intense tempo of living, the spirit of adventure, and the energy of the average American. 'America is a democratic country; it is governed by the people, by ordinary people like you and me,' it seems to say on every page . . . But this democracy can only stand fast by the grace of freedom, the safeguard for world peace. Therefore, TIME continually illuminates (as does the majority of the outstanding American press) the inroads being made by Communism on this human right. TIME's tone toward Soviet Russia and her sphere of influence is now ironic, now reserved...
...last week the crusty New York Republican stopped talking long enough to listen. George Marshall and his new Under Secretary of State, Robert Lovett, talked fast in a private session with Speaker Joe Martin, Taber and other congressional leaders. They laid out all the details of the State Department's plans for spending almost $1.5 billion, down to the last round of machine-gun ammunition the Greeks would get. Then Bob Lovett, in another closed meeting, confronted John Taber and his Appropriations Committee members. Lovett showed them secret intelligence reports about Greece, emphasized his own fears of what would...
...leftist Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee who were found guilty of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over records to the House Un-American Activities Committee (TIME, July 7). The whacks: for Chairman Dr. Edward Barsky: six months in jail and $500 fine; for Novelist Howard Fast and nine others: three months in jail and $500 fines; for Theatrical Producer Herman Shumlin, Leverett Gleason (publisher of comic books) and three others: $500 fines and suspended three-month jail terms. The eleven sentenced to jail appealed and were freed on bail...
...sports fans. In San Francisco an enterprising rat fancier was busily training some 80 albino rats, their tails dyed distinguishing hues, to run races in a specially designed treadmill. "I just put 'em on the wheel and poke 'em," he said. "They get the idea pretty fast." In France, Britain's pigeon fanciers let loose some 4,000 prize birds in the France-to-England Grand National and Northeast Lancashire classics. Only 50% of the birds returned to England, but pigeon racers are philosophical about their hobby. What with the heat and bad flying weather, they admit...