Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having long since proved that she can pull the plug on any three other musicomedy voices, Ethel Merman today puts herself across as brilliantly as she does a song. In Something for the Boys she is everywhere, doing everything. She torches and trollops, blares and beguiles, and late in the evening she and Actress Laurence, as a pair of wacky Indian women, bring down the house larruping through By the Mississinewa...
Henry J. Kaiser realized another dream last week. At Fontana, Calif., 45 miles east of Los Angeles in the heart of the wine and walnut belt, he watched his wife pull a switch and blow in his new 1,200-ton blast furnace, named in her honor "the Bess." The blowing in of the pig-iron furnace, just eight months after Henry Kaiser broke ground for her where a pig-breeding farm had once flourished, meant that the West Coast for the first time in its history had a fully integrated steel plant...
...instrument, a refinement of the commercial gravitimeter used in locating oilfields, is a strong spring with a weight attached to its lower end. Any change in the pull of gravity changes the pull of the weight, shortens or lengthens the spring by an invisible amount. The instrument records fluctuations in gravity of one part in a billion...
...gravitational pull of the earth and the counterpull of the sun Si moon, which produce ocean tides, would logically also affect dry land...
...Evangelist Buchman 64, was last week in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., convalescing from a heart attack in November. His patriotic pageant You Can Defend America (TIME, May 25), his chief activity nowadays, has been temporarily suspended, but its north-of-the-border adaptation, Pull Together, Canada, is going great guns in Nova Scotia...