Word: happeners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first day of the new currency issue, Shanghai merchants jacked prices up 20%. If they got away with that, other price rises would follow and the new currency might become as worthless as the old. Best sign that that would not happen was a flow of gold bars into the government's coffers as hoarders gave them up to purchase the new money...
...rise of two doctrines during the pre-atom era: "Progress and Nationalism . . . the theory that Utopia lies just ahead and that, since ideal ends justify the most abominable means, it is your privilege and duty to rob, swindle, torture, enslave and murder . . . [and] the theory that the state you happen to be subject to is the only true god . . . and that every conflict over prestige, power or money is a crusade for the Good, the True and the Beautiful . . . The longer you study modern history," concludes the Arch-Vicar, "the more evidence you find of Belial's Guiding Hand...
Chipper Minister of Agriculture Jimmy Gardiner was the only one who stayed in the fight to the end. All through the convention his 50 henchmen worked to collar support for him, kept telling themselves that "anything could happen." From his Chateau Laurier suite Jimmy Gardiner extended western hospitality to all comers, nipped down to the lobby at strategic moments. He threw a cocktail party for the press, a luncheon for western delegates. Gardiner got 323 votes. Said he sadly: "This isn't like an ordinary election campaign where you can take your opponent apart...
...Happen? The torrid, six-week campaign, in which razzle-dazzle obscured any real issues, had been right up the Duplessis alley. He promised bridges, schools, roads, and other local vote-catchers. He hammered away hardest of all on provincial autonomy, French Canadian nationalism, the menace of Communism...
...speed of sound with infinite trepidation. The most troublesome speed begins just below Mach I. When a wing is moving at, say, Mach .80, the air passing over it has to hurry to get around its bulge. If, in doing this, it reaches Mach I, violent things may happen. The smooth airflow breaks into turbulence as hard shock waves jump around on the wing (see cut). The drag increases enormously; the wing's lift drops. The buffeting from the irregular airflow may be strong enough to tear the wing apart. This sometimes happens when a fast subsonic airplane dives...