Word: squints
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down through the clammy mists of Long Island Sound an oil-stained Pan American Clipper rumbled. It squatted on the water, taxied between the lights to its ramp at LaGuardia Field. By the time the engines had spat to rest, ruddy, squint-eyed Captain R. O. D. Sullivan was ready to sign the log of a historic transatlantic crossing...
This Saturday some 30 thirty-footers (and over) will answer the gun for this year's tussle with Lake Michigan's temperamental airs. Many an old reliable will be missing. But inland sailors will get a squint at four formidable newcomers recently purchased in the East: Falcon, last of the famed Marblehead Q Boats; Barquita and Gentian, a pair of New York 32s; and Onaway, designed by famed Designers Sparkman & Stephens...
...steady golden stream, Congress continued appropriating billions upon billions for the Army & Navy. The figures, almost beyond human comprehension, were enough to make a Jap squint...
...woman, after taking a squint through the eye piece, annoyed the youthful astronomer particularly. "Yes, that is very interesting," she remarked, and added, "particularly because of my knowledge of astrology." But she did not hazard any prophecy on the course of world events from her observation,--perhaps because of the obscuring haze...
...With a squint at the Government's aluminum drive troubles and a hard look at the looming shortage in paper pulp, the U.S. boxboard industry last week was busy with its own drive...