Word: manual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flown 102 times during World War II for the Chinese National Aviation Corp., the plane bounced and tossed. Blue St. Elmo's fire glowed eerily from propellers and wing tips. His automatic pilot went out. For the rest of the way, he had to fly by manual control...
...only excitement in Owosso was when the porch swing fell down. Tom Dewey himself had made the swing in a manual training class 30 years ago. It was high-backed, narrow and uncomfortable, but Mrs. Dewey was proud of her son's handiwork and she hung it on the front porch of the white clapboard house on Oliver Street. She made a pad for it, and whenever it came apart, she patched it up with wire. One afternoon last week the wire gave way. Down in a heap went 165-Ib. Tom Dewey, 210-lb. National Committeeman Arthur...
...biggest news of the 108-year-old Henley Royal Regatta was the victory of 20-year-old Philadelphian John B. Kelly Jr. In the same race 27 years ago, Kelly's father, a champion Olympic sculler, was denied the right to compete because he had once done manual labor (as a bricklayer during a college vacation). The rule had since been repealed, but Kelly Sr., now a Philadelphia contractor, vowed that a son of his would one day win the prized Diamond Sculls. Last week he was one of the thousands on shore who saw his son finish eight...
Gandhi broke his shell. He decided manual labor was essential to the good life; he still thinks Indians will find peace only through making their own clothes on the charka (spinning wheel). So he gave up a legal practice bringing in about ?5,000 a year, moved to a farm settlement where his helpers worked the ground, and began to get out a newspaper, Indian Opinion...
...rest of the U.S. was not so well off-long distance service was down 80% in most places, and rural and suburban users of manual phones were thoroughly muzzled. But people got along...