Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exaggeration and ancient ham devices make up the first act of the play, and most of the second, with a little interpolated social conscience thrown in. After that comes a slow build-up to the curtain line, which almost makes up for the rest...
Airlines have been slow to go for radar. The sets are expensive and cut payload. But this week the Peruvian International Airways started the first regularly scheduled passenger service (between New York and Santiago, Chile) completely safeguarded by radar. P.I.A.'s radars (made by General Electric) weigh 150 lbs. in all, but show a clear map of the country below. The pilot knows where he is-and where the obstacles are-in all weathers...
...expedition may throw light on a more important mystery: the origin of the continents. Some geologists believe that the continents are masses of granite floating in the heavier plastic basalt which underlies both the land and the ocean basins. Since they are floating, they may drift, like infinitely slow-moving icebergs. One theory holds that North and South America have drifted away from Europe and Africa, and that the curving crack between them has widened to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...freight business, the showdown had come. So far as the independent carriers could make out, the issue was plain: Would the scheduled airlines, which had been slow to wake up to air freight's possibilities, be permitted to drive the independents out of business? The scheduled lines' weapon was a rate war - the 12?-per-ton-mile tariff recently proposed to the Civil Aeronautics Board by American, United and Pennsylvania-Central Airlines. What roweled the independents was their firm conviction that the scheduled lines could do the job only with the help of their Government "subsidies" in carrying...
...fulfill the crying necessity for a directing hierarchy unconnected with the many established influences at work on campuses everywhere. This is neither to rap any specific present leadership nor the particular point of view which a partisan group might advance. It is simply insurance that NSA not die of slow strangulation at the hands of those knowingly or not using it for personal political and special organizational ends...