Word: notch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed record, inching closer to the critical speed of sound, moved up a double notch. At Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy's Douglas Skystreak (0-558), piloted by Commander Turner F. Caldwell, zipped four times over a three-kilometer course at the average speed of 640.7 m.p.h. This was 16.9 m.p.h. faster than the record set (on June 19) by Lockheed's P-80R. Then last week, five days later, Marine Major Marion Carl (credited with 18 Japanese planes) took the Skystreak up again. Flying at times only 25 feet above the desert, he averaged 650.6 m.p.h...
Secretary of the Air Forces, Socialite-Industrialist W. Stuart Symington, who left the presidency of St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co., became Surplus Property Administrator, then a top-notch Assistant Secretary of War for Air, the aggressive, Yale-trained son-in-law of New York's defense-conscious Representative James W. Wadsworth...
...Carpenter, who won the half-mile novice singles last spring, has moved up a notch to the junior singles, and L.W. Barroll, last spring's compromise champion, will race in the novice singles class...
...subway train. On a long flight, McFarland reports, noise can increase fatigue, inefficiency and irritability to the danger point. There is no proof, he says, that constant flying permanently deafens airmen, but it does reduce their hearing in the higher frequencies (a deaf spot known as "aviator's notch"). The plane's vibration also may have bad physical effects; on a long flight it temporarily impairs vision and deadens certain reflexes...
Coach Tom Bolles and his top-notch, eight-men-and-a-boy, Varsity combination--plus two Jayvee oarsmen and the co-managers--are at the moment far from their accustomed aqueous habitat as they hurry westward by train for the 2000-meter Lake Washington regatta on Saturday...