Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...linen blinds shaded the open windows, the atmosphere was like a, hothouse. Majority Leader Herbert Morrison took off his spectacles to wipe his eyes and forehead. Spruce David Eccles on the Tory bench discreetly eased his tie. Cripps looked comfortable and unperturbed when he described the plan in a short statement. Twenty M.P.s leaped up to cross-examine...
Gargantuan Thirst. Only one present type of airplane, the fast, short-range fighter, is well adapted to the jet engine, whose great failing is its gargantuan thirst for fuel. Consumption varies with speed, altitude and other factors, but a fair figure for the big jets flying at low altitudes is 1,000 gallons of kerosene an hour. This means one gallon every 3.6 seconds. Fighters and interceptors justify this drain, but for bombers and commercial airliners, jet engines still use too much fuel...
...some speeds, thinks the NACA, the most efficient airplane may be shaped like an arrowhead. For others, it may have short, broad "stub" wings. They do not stop at "moderate" speeds such as Mach 1.5, but think boldly about speeds two or three times as fast. Obstacles do not discourage them. At Mach 4, they calculate, air friction will heat the leading edge (perhaps the whole body) of an airplane to about 1,200° F. This is red hot, and above the softening point of ordinary structural metals. "But," say the NACA men, "wings can be cooled artificially...
What Makes Louie Run. The man who makes the heart beat is short (5 ft. 5 in.), impish Louie Seltzer, just starting his 21st year as boss of the Press. Seltzer was born in a cottage back of a Cleveland firehouse, the son of Charles Alden Seltzer, an ex-cowpuncher who wrote westerns. Louis quit school at 10 to be a copy boy on the late Leader, became a cub reporter at 18. One day a new building collapsed in downtown Cleveland. Down three flights of stairs from the old Press city room scampered Seltzer...
...About one foot short of no yards...