Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past three years the Dramatic Club, sole remaining remnant of the one-time famous Harvard drama department, has produced plenty of flop shows. The officers deserted their policy of trying out experiments for one of attracting the public with lighter, frothier material than Auden, Isherwood, and T, S. Eliot. Unfortunately, the compromise policy has fallen flat and the H. D. C. has lost the prestige of its old daring innovations without gaining any compensatory lucre at the box-office...
...four lighter crews will probably not do as well through sheer lack of weight, but anything can and has happened in a crew race, and they will undoubtedly give their larger opponents a run for their money...
...would give planes smaller fuel loads, lighter engine weights per horse power, less head resistance, lower cooling loads, greater speed. But this is one case in which the war is not stimulating aviation progress but hampering it, and "no octane" gas will not be harnessed now for two big reasons: 1) To build stronger engines capable of using "no octane" gasoline would require retooling, and thereby much lost production which the U.S. cannot afford while Hitler is on the rampage...
...propeller-shaft housings, every square inch of her body goes into lift. Thanks to this economy, the Northrop's design can get the same speed with half the horsepower of conventional planes, or with the same horsepower can turn out 25-30% more speed. It is also lighter, less complicated than ordinary planes...
...Esquire's publisher, David Smart, his brother Alfred and their broker Arthur Greene. The charge: milking the public of $1,325,000 by artificially rigging the price of Esquire-Coronet, Inc. stock (which rose from $7 to $12.25 while 153,000 shares were being distributed-TIME, May 12). Lighter-sentenced were four New York and Chicago brokers, three Esquire employes...