Word: smoothly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problem came to meet him more than half way: the problem of personnel. Among his first callers was Indiana's smooth, handsome, ambitious Governor Paul Vories McNutt. The reason for Governor McNutt's call puzzled no one. One of the ablest politicians of the Midwest, soon to be out of a job because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process...
...Roosevelt's Coordinator for Industrial cooperation, met in Washington with not a single top-notch business leader in attendance. Prime reason for Big Business' boycott of this first post-Election attempt to devise a substitute for NRA was that the Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation is big, smooth, hairy-fisted Major George Leonard Berry, who is also longtime president of International Pressmen and Assistants Union...
...very cold dry snow, the waxing surface should be extremely smooth; while on wet snow it should be comparatively rough, as a smooth surface will "suck" on wet snow causing very slow running...
...always a good thing to carry a piece of paraffin along on a tour, as the snow texture is liable to change unexpectedly at any time; thus if you have waxed for dry snow (mix and very smooth surface) and you run into wet snow, by rubbing a rough coating of paraffin over the other wax it will enable the skis to glide freely...
Keep the skis and wax for some time in a warm room before waxing. Rub on a rough coating over the running surface of the skis, and smooth it down with the palm of the hand, rubbing it in one direction only; that is, from point to back...