Word: pacing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...However, the strength of the university . . . has not been developed in pace with its growth. . . . The university now suffers from an acute case of 'growing pains...
...Baltimore and in Detroit, for the first time since World War I worked three shifts a day. Yet production was limited because only a few U. S. brass rolling mills are of the continuous (mechanized assembly line) type, and even such mills were held down to the pace of old-fashioned brass foundries integrated with them. Meanwhile, war orders piled up at the same time as ordinary post-Labor Day orders from the auto companies, who want prompt delivery and plenty of it. This brass bottleneck caused copper sales to lag, particularly because brass manufacturers bought far ahead last...
...remarkable things with the materials at its command. The suspense, life-blood of the play, was well carried out and combined with a high quality of acting and vivid sets, to finish off the show, like the Emperor himself, in fine fashion. There were times, however, when the pace lagged and might have been quickened up to heighten the suspense. Frank Silveram, who, by necessity of script, practically put on a one-man show, got plenty of oomph into the part, though occasionally overacting it. The real laurels go to Edwin Pettet who gave the part of Smithers zest that...
...philanthropy but common sense kept the producers from hiking their price. In 1913 newsprint mills were running at about 85% of capacity, could not keep pace with expanding Wartime needs. Since the War production has far outstripped normal peacetime needs. Last year the mills ran at only 65% of capacity, had more than enough in reserve to keep the presses of the U. S. rolling...
...three freighters, crammed with 60-odd fighting planes for Britain and France, cast off from the Bollards at San Pedro, Calif., and stood out past Point Fermin to sea. Before they passed Catalina two Canadian destroyers steamed up with bones in their teeth, slowed to freighter's pace, headed south in convoy toward the Panama Canal...