Word: levelness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fully armed and carrying a full load of fuel, the Air Force's brand-new F-86 set an unofficial world's speed record for level flight-669.75 m.p.h. The plane, a North American jet fighter with swept-back wings, was flown by Major Richard L. Johnson, 30, over a measured course at the National Air Races in Cleveland. The old record was 650.796 m.p.h. Speed of sound (at sea level): about 750 m.p.h...
Future prices quoted on the new crop were now some 20? below the anticipated Government support level of $1.60 a bushel at Chicago. But farmers could not get loans on their corn from the Government at support levels until they got their crop into storage-and there was not enough room to store it. Traders guessed that as many as 500 million bushels might be dumped on the open market for lack of storage. That would drive prices down still further...
What was happening at Amsterdam last week? New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam called it "continuous and creative cooperation of 145 churches at a world level." But what the world mostly heard were sounds of argument. At the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches, the chief debate seemed remarkably like the East-West bickering in U.N. The debaters: U.S. Layman John Foster Dulles and Czech Theologian Joseph L. Hromadka...
...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...
Tire men happily admitted that they had badly misjudged demand. With over 4,000,000 cars and trucks coming off assembly lines this year, they now thought they could sell 80 million tires in the next twelve months. That would keep production one-fourth above the prewar level well into...