Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's greatest swim sprinter is knock-kneed, rusty-haired Alan Robert Ford. During the past month, his last at Yale, he has taken a final fling at rewriting the record books. Result: eleven new American free-style and backstroke marks. Last week, in the midst of his final Navy (V12) exams, he made the biggest splash of all. Keeping his stroke long and easy (extra effort generates power but not speed, like an automobile in second), Ford couldn't help feeling that he was loafing. Three official A.A.U. watches contradicted him : he had traveled 100 yards...
...Committee was understandably astonished. Previous testimony had made many an unsavory anti-Goldberg point: 1) that Goldberg had sold DPC surpluses at knock-down prices, but had later, and privately, tapped purchasers for an additional 20%; 2) that he had favored certain buyers by use of signals rather than voice bids; 3) that he had offered a DPC official a $20,000-a-year job to promote Goldberg good will within...
Objective, Burma! (Warners) is a practically book-length (2 hr. 22 min.) tribute to the U.S. paratroops. At the rate Errol Flynn & Co. knock off the Japanese, it may make you wonder why there is any good reason for the war to outlast next weekend. On the other hand, you may be too excited to bother with such thoughts...
...Happened. The record is here: Marcus, Wake, Rabaul, the Gilberts, the Marshalls, Truk, the Marianas, Palau, Hollandia, a return engagement at Truk, ("This time," said Commander Cameron Briggs, "we intend our performance to knock them completely off their feet"), the battles in the Philippine Sea. The Navy has let Jensen disclose some of its jealously misguarded secrets: the complete war records of some carriers, and frequent identification of other carriers and their air groups engaged in various battle; the makeup of a typical carrier task group; some of the "hideous errors," as well as the feats of skill and daring...
...Much for Geneva? All this had one good effect. DPC Boss Sam Husbands' engineers are at work figuring out a price for Geneva. It will probably be well under its cost. Allowance for depreciation and high wartime construction costs may knock off as much as $50,000,000 of the original $200,000,000. And DPC may also take into account the fact that Geneva is still an expensive place for steelmaking. In the 'first six months last year, it earned only $2,689,386, with no allowance for depreciation, interest, etc., which would have...