Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...magazine to be regularly delivered by plane, it will reach Latin American readers as far south as Buenos Aires by Monday date of publication. Subscription rate will be $10 a year. Making possible TIME'S Air Express Edition were: 1) cooperation of Pan American Airways; 2) a special lightweight paper printed on specially designed presses...
When last week began, the U. S. was worried about a bottleneck in magnesium -a metal invaluable, since it is one-third lighter than even aluminum, for lightweight airplane parts. At week's end the bottleneck was smashed. The way it was smashed was a lesson in speed. To a nation which needs speed above all else, it was proof that time is no obstacle to men of energy and purpose...
Director Lynn Gordon has assembled a full lightweight round of assorted pokes, rabbit-punches and backhands delivered at a musical tempo to the sensitive parts of Dame Boston's anatomy. Hizzoner the Mayor, the debutante, college life and the Boston El all come in for their share of playful pushing. There is a burlesque on the modern school of dancing that does one of the Hub's outstanding aesthetic horrors to a beautiful brown. But many of the best scenes and most of the real talent fall outside the local-color category and would fit well into any revue...
...Onetime Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard, 44, and his old rival, hammer-hitting Lew Tendler, 42, sparred three rounds at a Philadelphia exhibition for charity, accorded each other the victory. Both now run restaurants, Leonard in Manhattan, Tendler in Philadelphia. Boxer Benny, who won a famous fight from Tendler in 1922 mostly by his wits, had already explained how the paunch-pushing would go: "He's going to hit me with a left hook-not too hard-and I'm going to talk him out of the fight all over again...
...weighs 33% less than aluminum, 75% less than steel. As strong (in tensility) as the best cast iron, it can be used in airplane motors, crankcases, landing wheels, pontoons; the weight it saves can then be switched to gasoline or bomb load. It also has important military use in lightweight bomb casings and (because of the inflammability which once made it invaluable to photographers as flashlight powder) in parachute flares, incendiary bombs, tracer bullets. German production, according to Arnold, has jumped 500% since 1938 (to an estimated 25,000 tons last year...