Word: horizon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gross who got Lockheed to perform something like production miracles because he could airily wave away engineers who said that miracles couldn't be done. Back in 1942, he cannily realized that the jet plane was just over the horizon. The Army turned down his offer to build one, figuring that it would be developed too late for World War II. Gross ordered development work, anyhow...
...Over the Horizon....When the U.S. begins to fill its needs by production, its conversion problems will still be far from over. The materials and the manpower of the nation will have to be drastically reallocated. There will not be enough steel to go around, nor enough lead, nor lumber, pipe, tiles, brick...
...band of hysterical disciples and a handful of choosy intellectuals (T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Osbert Sitwell, Edmund Wilson) regarded Miller as a talented writer with a flair for outrageous humor. Said the sobersided Satur day Review of Literature: Miller is "the largest force lately risen on the horizon of American letters...
...power and authority to create them. If he wishes to produce towns or deserts, if in the hot season he wants cool and shady places, or in the cold season warm places, he can make them. If he wants valleys, if from high mountaintops he wants to ... see the horizon on the sea, he has the power to create all this. Indeed, whatever exists in the universe, whether in essence, in act, or in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands...
...many lives. Designers of high-speed aircraft, rather than risk their test pilots, are turning to radio-controlled planes equipped with television. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed, and the plane screams down to earth, no life...