Word: feeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gren, an amiable, poker-playing crony, to the Federal Power Commission, and New York's former Senator James M. Mead to the Federal Trade Commission. The Senate quickly confirmed them both, ^f Appointed Richard Feeney, 5, son of a White House employee, as an official White House squirrel feeder-providing i) the boy draws no pay, and 2) furnishes his own peanuts...
Simple Desires. To King, the reward was welcome but not surprising. His sugary three-quarter-time, he admits, has already made him "a little better than a millionaire." It has paid for a luxurious grey Georgian house in Chicago's suburban Kenilworth, a 680-acre Ottawa, Ill. feeder farm where cattle are fattened for market, and a 640-acre hunting reservation in Wisconsin. Last week, puffing thoughtfully on one of his 300 pipes (briars, clays and cobs), King explained why his style is so successful: "There are many people whose musical desires are very simple. We try to play...
...commercial planes that were well ahead of anything the U.S. has in the air or abuilding. Among the 59 new fighter and commercial planes were the world's first jet transport plane, the first turbo-prop (turbine-driven propeller) transport, and other turbo-prop transports ranging from feeder planes to ocean hopping giants. As an added fillip, there was the Brabazon, the world's largest land transport plane, which had been test-hopped only a fortnight ago. Crowed the London Times: "Already America has had to buy British jet engines; in the not far distant future...
...will carry 100 passengers 5,500 miles at 250 m.p.h. cruising speed, in high-altitude (25,000 ft.) comfort with staterooms, bar, and movies in the lounge. For medium-range flights, Britain had the Vickers 4O-passenger Viscount and Armstrong Whitworth's 31-passenger Apollo, both turboprops. For feeder-lines, it had both De Havilland's reciprocating engined Dove (eight to eleven passengers) and Handley Page's 22-passenger turboprop, the Mamba Marathon.* But the star of the show at Farnborough was De Havilland's 36-passenger Comet, the first four-engined jet transport, which took...
Stationed in his commanding position behind the cage, as feeder, he ran the offense for the team, passing to six assists, in addition to scoring his one goal...