Word: roar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ugly, color-splashed, noisy inferno. Launching her planes from the crowded flight deck, she throbs with the rumble of warming airplane engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle back to the quiet peace of a ship...
Features of the new line include doorless telephone booths soundproofed to keep out the roar of trains, promenades in & out of the elaborate 34th Street station by which one can walk all the way to 42nd Street. Proud but not satisfied is the city's Board of Transportation. Included in plans for the far future : an East Side subway to replace the 2nd and 3rd Avenue elevateds, a subway under Central Park, four new tunnels under the East River and one to Staten Island...
...boomed with work; coming out of Washington was like leaving the quiet of an office to walk into the crashing roar of a factory. More men & women were working than at any time in eleven years-more than at any time in U. S. history except for six months in boom 1929.* By December 1941, 6,000,000 more men will be working, said the Defense Commission. Business hummed toward record activity (see p. 80). The U. S. was rapidly moving through the first phase of rearmament: total mobilization of the national economy into one vast productive effort...
...dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs in the silent recesses of the mill. Workmen in this part of the country, even more than most U. S. workmen, are used to going in debt for Christmas, measuring the disadvantages against...
...operations Garity and Stokowski used 430,000 feet of sound track, cut and patched it eventually into 11,953 feet. When the recordings were played back in a specially equipped studio in Hollywood, brother engineers were astounded to hear Soundman Garity's sound follow characters across the screen, roar down from the ceiling, whisper behind their backs. RCA and Disney engineers, having built his equipment at a cost of $85,000, called it "Fantasound," and crowed that it would revolutionize cinema production like nothing since the invention of Technicolor...