Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...supersonic speed, Whittle was not as optimistic. The obstacle of the shock wave (which racks a plane as it nears the speed of sound) is still unlicked. Swept-back wings, he felt, would push the speed limit upward, but they could push no plane across the sound threshold...
Elliot's detractors say he had a head start. His father is program director of WCAU, the CBS station in Philadelphia, and got the kids radio time. CBS also owns Columbia Records, and the Lawrence band has snared a profitable recording contract. But even allowing for a starting push, Lawrence's band is doing well on its own. Their college dates were paying as high as $3,000 a night and their first record, I'll Be with You in Apple Blossom Time and Strange Love, has been a steady seller for two months...
Jesse P. Wolcott, eloquent, smart, the man who helped push Bretton Woods through the House; Military Affairs-New York's Walter G. Andrews, reticent, unassuming and trusted by the War Department...
...remedy has been to refine the plane's lines, polish the skin. Such tricks push the speed limit upward. But they succeed at a fearful price. Above 600 m.p.h. the slightest irregularity may beckon a fatal wave out of the speeding...
...backers, the push-button world apparently held no terrors. Said a representative of International Business Machines (whose motto is "Think!"): "Why, it's a great era for the individual worker. Just think, instead of just taking dictation, a secretary can now serve her boss as accountant, paymaster, inventory expert, and Lord only knows what else...