Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only liquid-cooled engine of American design now in mass production and general military use is the Allison. This engine drives the P-38, the P39 and the P-40. Its development was late in starting and was carried on under great difficulties. It has not yet caught up with its opposite numbers, Britain's Rolls-Royce (also being manufactured in this country) and Germany's Daimler-Benz...
...discard young men who showed an undue interest in the Empire's other races, had never faced the "race problem" at home. Ninety per cent of Britain's citizens had never actually seen or talked to a black-skinned human being before. America's polite, liquid-voiced, smartly uniformed Negro soldiers were a surprise, a pleasure, and a happy opportunity for them to thumb the nose of moral self-righteousness at the U.S. Britain's hospitable small homes were thrown open to white & black alike...
...Russians said the Germans had a new fighter over Stalingrad, the Messerschmitt 109-G, powered by a liquid-cooled motor, mounting three cannon and two machine guns, effective as high as 40,000 feet. Such a plane would be formidable against Britain, too, because the British Spitfire's efficiency declines above 30,000 feet...
...vegetable-oil-based cream shampoos, bottled in jars like cold cream as substitutes for vanished liquid coconut...
...workers piece together hundreds of 275-h.p. radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft makers...