Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...82nd Congress will reconvene next Jan. 8, instead of Jan. 3, as prescribed (but not required) by the 20th amendment to the Constitution. Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland observed that Jan. 3 was Thursday, a wasteful day, and suggested that the date be pushed forward to the following Monday, Jan. 7. House Speaker Sam Rayburn gently suggested another push to Tuesday, the 8th. His reason: the Monday meeting would require him to travel on Jan. 6, his 70th birthday...
More Than Wet Feet. Headlines and bloodshed gave an air of newness to crises that had actually been evolving for years. The waves had been moving forward since the collapse of Turkey's Ottoman empire and, more energetically, since the end of World War II. The West was belatedly learning that it was in for more than a case of wet feet...
Bell's convertiplane will resemble a conventional airplane with helicopter rotors spinning above each wingtip. After it is in the air, the rotors will be tilted 90° forward, thus turning into propellers to fly the craft like an airplane. When the time comes to land, the rotors will return to the helicopter position. Bell believes that the changeover can be accomplished safely and in only a few seconds...
...rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...today's lineup, Munro has one new face, John Harvey at center forward. Harvey won his letter two years ago as a wing, but he did not play last year and he had not been working out this year until this week. Though he is inexperienced, he has a good foot. The rent of the team will be the same...