Word: plugged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they had time, its ten members might have toasted their accomplishments all night. They had served as watchdog, spotlight, conscience and spark plug to the economic war-behind-the-lines. They had prodded Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones into building synthetic-rubber plants, bludgeoned the President into killing off doddering old SPAB and setting...
...talk about green's going to war was called off. American Tobacco said it had been so successful (November sales were 38% over 1941) that all the green packages were gone. Then Luckies produced a new slogan: "The Best Tunes of All Move to Carnegie Hall"-an advance plug for its new show ("all-time" popular melodies played by Mark Warnow's orchestra). Impresario Golenpaul asked a Manhattan court to make Lucky Strike cut this commercial plug while Information Please was still on Lucky Strike's time. The court seemed to be sympathetic, but denied Golenpaul...
...routine feeling from it. It's routine flight on which the bomber is shot down, and the picture makes you feel it's also routine for the crew to plug ahead, for calm Dutch girls to help them escape, and for British Naval vessels to find them on a floating buoy. Geogie Withers' interpretation of the unassuming girl who smuggles them out of the country leads a list of excellent acting jobs, with the entire British crew and Dutch townspeople a group of real humans...
Quietest weapons in the U.S. arsenal are the plug, snap and ring gauges which make possible mass production by guaranteeing the accuracy that permits interchangeable parts. Plug gauges, for checking inside diameters, are accurate cylinders frequently with go and no go ends.* One form of snap gauge looks like the letter C and external dimensions are checked in its fixed opening. Ring gauges look like the letter O, are often used in go and no go sets for checking the external diameters of rods, gun barrels and the like...
...number of industries by made-to-measure ear mufflers of smooth plastic, put out by Manhattan's Maico, Inc., an adaptation of their main product-hearing aids. An impression is taken of the outer folds and canal entrance of the ear. From this cast a polished plastic plug is made which extends into the auditory canal, is locked in place by a lip which fits over the helix (rim of the external ear). Light and clean, the plug is easily inserted with a twisting motion, cannot be pushed in too far, leaves sufficient leeway to equalize air pressures...