Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...public view last week like a kerosene-burning skeet target. It left Moses Lake, Wash., with a whoosh of its six jet engines, skyrocketed 2,289 miles to Andrews Air Force Base, Md. (where it rolled down the runway with a fuchsia-colored parachute blossoming from its tail, to slow it down) in three hours and 46 minutes...
Dudley's speed and adept ball handling easily stopped Eliot's slow, unorganized attack. If none of the Commuters had scored except John Woods, they still would have had a one point edge over Eliot. The tall forward dropped ten field goals and one foul shot through the hoop for a total of 21 points...
...number one man Jim Bacon will have to face Joe Heutz, tall, rangy Wesleyan star who last year boat almost everyone in prep school circles. The game will be a contrast between Hentz' quick, dazzling style versus Baoon's slow, plugging game...
...Small, Too Slow? But all this private and public effort was neither fast enough nor big enough for Cap Krug and his Under Secretary Oscar L. Chapman, who last week called for a doubling of the U.S.'s generating capacity in the next ten years. Chapman thought that the U.S. would be short of power for years. Private utility companies disagreed. They guessed there would soon be a surplus, unless a new demand was created. To create that demand, the Edison Electric Institute last week started a nationwide drive for all-electric kitchens...
...Ruth Lawrence of Birmingham, Ala., was pretty quick with a sewing machine. But like other housewives, she found it slow going when she had to rip what she had sewn. With Merritt L. Walls, a gadget-minded ex-G.I, Mrs. Lawrence worked out the first needle that will quickly rip a seam by "unlocking" the bobbin stitch. When the Lawrence-Walls "ripper" was first demonstrated a month ago, Birmingham housewives bought 5,000 (at $1 each) in four hours. Last week the inventors granted exclusive manufacturing rights to the Oilman Corp. of Janesville, Wis., a subsidiary of Parker...