Word: slickly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week: "In logic and law there is no answer [to the President's proposal]. But Congress has been snowed under with objections mostly in error about what the proposal really means. Why? Because it took a crack at Mr. [Charles Evans] Hughes and because it was too damned slick...
...Boeing tailspin was not yet over. Following the 247-D came the slick Douglas DC-1, 2 and 3 which immediately became the darlings of most major U. S. airlines. Even United "went Douglas" eventually. But undaunted Claire Egtvedt kept plugging at the military contracts Boeing and its Kansas subsidiary, Stearman Aircraft Co., have never lacked. An engineer pure and simple, President Egtvedt kept Boeing plants small, while others, like Douglas, were overexpanding. He devoted all Boeing's energies to creating a magnificent new bomber - the great 299, now called YB-17. This four-motored monoplane is the most...
...witness chair sat one William H. Martin, a slick-haired young onetime Pinkerton operative, now unemployed. In 1935, he said, he was sent to Toledo to work on the Chevrolet strike then in progress. He was assigned, he recalled, to shadow "a man named McGrady, a Government mediator...
...stinging snow and wind that burn your face, you sit tense in a narrow cockpit, legs braced, toes hooked under a crossbar. The tiller jerks and trembles in your hands, intensifying your sensation of speed. A few inches beneath you is the ice, now white and granular, now slick as black glass, racing by to the singing of the wind in your rigging and the crisp cutting sound of the sharp-bladed runners. You put your nose down into your muffler to catch a warm breath-the wind has you gasping and your cheeks feel shaved...
...Negro Perry Newkirk for $1,500. Even cheaper was the Taylor Cub, over 1,000 of which have been sold. In the first three days, sales of ten more Cubs were reported at $1,270 each. Similar success attended the rival Taylorcraft. Last week, Horace Keane Co. had a slick white Ace Monoplane with a Ford V8, out to rival Arrow. The Bureau of Air Commerce showed its Pitcairn readable autogiro. It was supposed to drive in through the streets, but Manhattan's police said it would have to get an automobile license. So it rode ignominiously...