Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Martin B-26). One of the fastest of mediums, the B-26 has been denounced as tricky and unreliable. Actually it is a crack performer in the hands of an experienced pilot, has had an especially good record in the European Theater, where fields are good, runways long and smooth. But because it is expensive to make, to maintain, and because manufacturing space is needed for a new type, its production is being reduced and it will work only in theaters to which it is specifically adapted...
Last week Kentucky's courtly, blue-eyed Colonel Ed, 68, his back still shot gun-straight in a 6-ft.-2-in. frame, his tread still cat-smooth, announced his retirement, effective Nov.1. After nearly three decades on the White House detail, U.S. Secret Service, Colonel Ed was going fishing...
Everything seemed to be going too smoothly. As soon as the anchor was down the boats of the first assault wave were away and circling in the water. It was the smoothest debarkation I had ever seen. It was too smooth...
Shortly, the Carnation Co. was grossing $8,000 monthly on desks and office tables. Later, Austin designed a wooden filing cabinet whose drawers actually slide smoothly. His simple secret: when resinous pine is rubbed against a hard wood, both become slippery and glass-smooth, slide more easily the more they are rubbed. Orders for 1,700 poured in, have kept the Carnation Co. hustling as it supplied a good chunk of the requirements of the Army and Boeing Aircraft in Seattle...
...Intelligence) must gather, evaluate and disseminate all essential information (notes about the enemy's armor, defenses, equipment, facts about the terrain, everything that needs to be known before the start of a combat). Head of Eisenhower's smooth-working Intelligence is Brigadier Kenneth W. D. Strong, at 43 one of the British Army's bright young men. Strong's receding chin and horn-rimmed glasses make him look like an American caricature of an Englishman. He is a leading authority on the German Army, an able military thinker. At work he religiously wears the tartan trousers...