Word: gears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took four months of bureaucratic gear-grinding for the King's instructions to bear fruit. Last week, an official buff-colored envelope flopped on to Alfred's doormat. Inside was a letter signed by Food Minister Strachey's private secretary: "Your letter . . . was referred by the King to the Minister of Food who, by His Majesty's command, has given it careful consideration and has decided that ... an exception to the general rule . . . may be made in your case." Said Alfred: "When my wife and I realized what the King had done, we burst into tears...
...plane had shown on Middle Scope, whose operator picked up: "Decrease rate of descent to 400 and maintain it constant . . . Lower your landing gear ..." Then Final Scope took over: "Change course to three four eight degrees. You're high on the glide path . . . Level off. Steady . . . You're on the glide path...
Accessories Extra. In San Francisco, Edward T. Adkins, who had equipped his car with a magazine rack, movie camera, electric torch and drill and an airplane steering gear, was stopped for driving without license plates...
Scripter-Producer Nunnally Johnson has a pleasant wit, but in this show, most of the time, it is only working in second gear; and at best, he is no magician. In simple justice, the question arises: Would anyone know, any better, what to do with a mermaid...
...food convoys moved to the city's Jews. In answer to Bernadotte's call for more help, 50 U.N. employees from Lake Success signed up to go to Palestine. Some were guards, others were stockroom clerks or statisticians or employees in the U.N. movie unit. Among the gear hastily issued them before they took off from La Guardia Field for Palestine were .35-caliber Smith & Wesson revolvers, without ammunition. If Bernadotte chose to issue them bullets, the little band in white caps and grey uniforms would become U.N.'s first armed force...