Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bulk of North American's business, however, is still in new military planes. Besides its twin-fuselaged P-82s (one of which was poised to try for a fighter-plane nonstop record by flying from Honolulu to New York), the company is testing a four-jet bomber, the B-45, and a Navy jet fighter expected to fly upwards of 500 m.p.h. Thanks to its backlog of nearly $180 million, North American had to spend so much on expansion that it lost $216,784 in the first quarter of its 1947 year (which ends in September) on a gross...
...next month the President had a real vacation in mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...
Even the strait-laced BBC has its wild & woolly moments. The woolliest: 6:45 every week night, when British youngsters gasp at the well-planned perils of Dick Barton, Special Agent, hero of BBC's only nonstop thriller.* Every night, just as death's door opens, time's up. "What will Dick do? Listen in tomorrow night...
...showed signs of cracking. Caterers brought meals in to the offices of both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting tired. We're getting as much sleep as we always...
...Nonstop. In Chicago, Patrick Rogers, irate when three streetcars passed him by, said "I'll stop the next one!" stepped on to the track, waved his arms, was knocked down and killed...