Word: overnights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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American Airlines announced that Phoenix, Ariz, would hereafter be the night-time Western terminal for their transcontinental flights. Westbound passengers will be bedded overnight in Phoenix, flown on next morning to the Burbank, Calif, airport. Reason: radio beams may be shut off at any time, in a West Coast air alarm...
...Overnight, war with Japan made the U.S. shipping shortage twice...
...Germany's usual 90 octane. But even this supergas-70% more powerful than 1931's best 87 octane fuel-is a back number with fuel technologists, who have recently concocted "no octane" gasoline-50% more powerful than 100 octane. Of this liquid dynamite the U.S. could produce overnight several hundred thousand gallons...
...patriotic loyalty of the Harvard Faculty is unquestionable. But their devotion to the teaching profession does not allow such a bold statement. They scurry through the Yard armed with bulky briefcases filled no longer with weighty academic tracts, but rather with pajamas and toothbrush for an overnight stay in Washington. The national emergency does make it possible for every capable man to find a job to do, but the intellectual standards of Harvard should not be impaired by the emergency. Men who devote only half, and sometimes even less of their time to teaching, are detrimental to these standards...
...overnight come results. Tony Failla of New Jersey Gear Co. testified to that...