Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Finger on a Fact. President Truman understands the obvious need for wage & price controls. What he does not seem to understand is that inflation cannot be controlled unless the flow of money is damped down. And the flow of money is controlled, to a large extent, by how freely banks can dump Government bonds, without loss, on the Federal Reserve...
...Contino is not the world's greatest accordion player; others have the same flying-finger technique. But none has ever surpassed his showmanship. "When he digs into a tune," one admirer puts it, "he becomes as passionate as a sailor on his first night ashore." Says Erskine Johnson, Hollywood columnist: "He looks down his accordion the way Gilbert used to look down Garbo...
This week the D.A. added a little more fuel to the fire. He announced that another $135,000 was missing from the U.F.A.'s funds and pointed an accusing finger at the union's President John P. Crane. When Crane refused to sign an immunity waiver, he was summarily fired from the department. But, said Crane, the loyal firemen would also make up his salary out of the union treasury...
Richards looked up at the crossbar. There it sat: the most beautiful stationary object he had ever seen in his life. After two years of missing by finger-flicks (TIME, Jan. 29), Parson Richards had become the second* man in history to vault 15 feet or more. He got up and did an unrestrained war dance...
Other engineering changes: ¶A new hydraulic steering mechanism, the "Hydraguide," which eliminates 80% of the pushing & pulling normally done by the driver, makes it possible to park at the curb with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...