Word: pour
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when sucked into a supercharger (TIME, Aug. 18), it often heats up to 450° F. upon compression, and must be cooled to between 30° and 100° F. before it is fed to the carburetors. The coolers used are simply air scoops which pour wind around small pipes carrying the hot, supercharged air. Intercoolers on early Flying Fortresses weighed 92 lb. for each of four engines. Airesearch has produced coolers weighing only 32 lb. each-giving each Fortress an extra 240 lb. of useful load...
...purpose in quoting the above is not to pour praise on a man who certainly doesn't need it, much less crave it, but assure others as it has myself, that, after all, the Government is not going in for dancers and artists as recent publicity would indicate, but is really getting he-men for he-jobs...
...Author Tabouis realizes that those bad times were gay, uninhibited days when there was still an element of pour le sport in politics. "One old gentleman [Baron Christiany] made it a point at all social affairs which the President [Loubet] attended to throw rotten eggs at him" or bash in the Presidential topper with a cane. It was not long before Mme. Tabouis would see Premier Léon Blum's head bashed in by young Royalists...
...after Easter. Frankie has been pleasing the regular paying guests and bringing a lot of new fans into the Savoy as well, but apparently he didn't always preserve the most amicable relations with his boss. But he nevertheless deserves a really good job where crowds of citizens will pour in to see and hear him. A situation in some favorable New York spot, perhaps, in competition with Teddy Wilson and the Chicagoans at Nick's, would really prove his mettle...
Once Detroit's conversion to war is complete, when the lines are all moving with the precision of timing and economy of motion that Detroit borrowed from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto industry will employ a million men & women, twice as many as it ever did, will make a billion dollars' worth of armaments a month. If Armageddon is to be decided in Detroit, Armageddon...