Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Home of the Brave" admits for the first time that there are in this country two classes of citizens, white and black, and that the black semi-citizens resent like hell being pushed around. Furthermore, they want something done about it--fast. But Negroes know that before they can be accepted as full citizens, they must first be recognized as real and complete human beings, with feelings that can be hurt and turned sour. Screen Plays Corporation and director Mark Robson set out to demonstrate this first truth without any mumbling or crossed fingers. What they want to show...
...submit that he is often considerably more, and with this I pass into silence, pausing only to express the heartfelt hope that persons of excessive gravity will not read this book. If they do, they will put it to death, and it will go out of print as fast, and with as little reason, as did the works from which it has been culled...
...monkeys" in the back room, running the duplicating machine. Gradually he teams them up with reporters covering police beats, courts, hospitals and public buildings, finally puts them on their own. From Gersh and City Editor Larry Mulay young reporters learn to turn out a story that is fast, straight and complete...
...Viking's inner works are much like the V-2's: it burns alcohol and "lox" (liquid oxygen) in a single combustion chamber. Chief improvement is in the control mechanism. When a big rocket first takes off, the air is not moving past its fins fast enough to provide steering control. The Germans got around this difficulty by putting small, movable graphite vanes in the blast of hot gas from the combustion chamber. By deflecting the gas stream slightly when the rocket wobbled, the vanes kept it upright until it was moving fast enough for the outside fins...
...political repercussions of a wheat glut. The CCC, which now owns most of the old crops still on hand, had been doing its best to move it out of storage and to the Gulf ports in the hope of increasing export. But there was a limit on how fast it could be moved. This week, the Association of American Railroads, unwilling to let its cars get tied up with orphan wheat, embargoed all shipments which did not have storage space reserved in advance...