Word: slow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine exhaust. Up to 95% comes from the propeller, whose fast-moving tips stir up racketing sound waves. To eliminate the waves, NACA designed a five-bladed prop, which looks like a five-petaled flower. It gives plenty of push when driven (through reduction gears) at a comparatively slow 1,000 r.p.m. The broad, leisurely blades do their work in near silence...
Minding the Baby. They were willing to look back over the past four months and review their record. They felt that record needed no apologies. The start had been slow, not to say a little embarrassing, in view of the early January confidence of such Republican leaders as Senator Robert Taft. G.O.P. leaders probably should have known better. No new Congress could turn out legislation the way Taft and others had indicated that the 80th would. Congress had had no help from President Truman, who, when the 80th had convened, had sat back with...
...trial & error. Before many weeks, he was supplying rules and statistics for bewildered sports fans, ignoring the obvious, calling an occasional play wrong to delight armchair experts, devising a set of silent signals and on-the-air cues for his cameramen and spotters, keeping his commentary at a slow pace so that the cameras could follow without jerky images. His friends helped out by bar-hopping and giving him reports of audience reaction to his sportcasting. For a while, he had an uneasy sensation that he was becoming a victim of technocracy-"merely a stooge for mechanical contraptions...
There had to be a long-range plan to permit the slow, expensive development of new types. Consolidated Vultee has built one 400-man troop-carrying C-99. But Consolidated's President Harry Woodhead said that without more millions of dollars and years of preparation for production the C-99 might just as well be a "museum piece." Warned J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Fair child Engine & Airplane Corp.: "We will never again have five years to mobilize aircraft production...
Probably the main trouble is that Portrait in Black literally talks itself out of being exciting enough. All the characters are so frightfully conversational that they eventually slow down the pace and thin out the action...