Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, CAA acted. Charging Strato-Freight with overloading and persistent violation of safety regulations (e.g., it had ignored a badly frayed flap follow-up cable), CAA ordered the airline to stop flying. It was the first time that CAA which usually leaves such police action to the Civil Aeronautics Board, had grounded an overseas airline...
...plane, which has been successfully tested, can also cruise as low as 27 miles an hour and makes less noise than an automobile. It looks like a conventional craft in every respect but the wings, which have slots in front and a big flap in back...
...some handsomely photographed train wrecks, but except for Frank Faylen's lynx-eyed portrait of a killer, Whispering Smith is a conventional western in every detail. Its only novelty: Actor Ladd, familiar as a sleekly tough urban type, carrying two guns and looking pretty uncomfortable as they flap around his chaps...
...After St. Martin got a hole in his stomach from a shotgun blast in 1822, he lived 58 years, to the great profit of medical researchers. A doctor put food directly into his stomach through a flap, and got a close-up picture of digestion...
...mothers cast their ballots. Some Communist members of the election boards tried, despite hawk-eyed poll watchers of the major parties, to invalidate ballots-the slightest blemish on a ballot was enough for the purpose. (One Italian columnist implored his female readers to remove their lipstick before wetting the flap of the ballot "just as if you were giving a little kiss to a man with a suspicious wife...