Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years Hong Kong had stood handsomely for the Imperial Way of Life. The Happy Valley Race Course was smooth and fast. The cool gimlets and gin slings of the Hong Kong Club were as refreshing as the food of the great hotels was dull. Shops bore names that circled the rim of Empire: Kelly & Walsh sold Britons their books, Whiteaway & Laidlaw sold them practically everything else. The white monolithic skyscraper of the Hong Kong-Shanghai Bank dominated the island's waterfront as it dominated Britain's Pacific Empire, looking down upon the lesser establishments of Jardine, Matheson...
With most of the world as war-swept as China, foreign relations now consist chiefly of military councils and conferences. For such councils smooth-speaking diplomats are not as much needed as blunt, hard-hitting men of affairs. Such a man is T. V. Soong, whose reputation as a tough guy is a fable from Singapore to Vladivostok. T. V. also had the advantage of being in Washington, where the most important war councils were taking place...
Meanwhile, new Censor Byron Price, squeezed into offices in the Post Office Building, was hampered in his efforts to set up a smooth-functioning censorship machinery by a deluge of newsmen's questions that made him the most consulted man in Washington. He did get two assistants to help him: to assist in radio censorship, 56-year-old, Ohio-born John H. Ryan, vice president and general manager of a Midwest radio chain; to assist with press censorship, 45-year-old, Arkansas-born John H. Sorrells, Scripps-Howard executive editor (since...
When the defense boom started Beech had sold fewer than 300 airplanes. He was long on reputation, short on orders and cash. But he had three assets: 1) energy, 2) a smooth tongue, 3) a twin-engined commercial transport readily convertible into a bomber trainer. After a Beech sales talk, the Army started signing bomber trainer orders. Now Beech has an $85,000,000 backlog...
...Neither retreading nor recapping is to be confused with regrooving. This merely cuts new treads (for safety) in a tire worn smooth. No new rubber is added, nor is the life of the tire prolonged...