Word: starting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pennsylvania's Governor Jim Duff, who hopes to put most of his state's 73 delegates in the driver's seat of a Vandenberg bandwagon at Philadelphia next month (TIME, May 10). The Senator's strategists hoped that his friends around the country would not start making a big noise about his candidacy. They wanted him to keep his standing as a dark horse, but they also wanted his friends to be no longer in the dark about his willingness to run. They could spread the word quietly to state leaders and delegates; they would...
Said Farmer Rhinehart: "Right away he puts his hands like he was giving them to me for a present-like to ask me where he should start working. We can't speak a word to each other but we sure piled up a heap of understanding. I hope this is just the beginning. Room here for lots more Poles, Jews and whatever kind of farmers they got left...
...aluminum. British scientists changed it to aluminium to harmonize with sodium, lithium, etc. Britain still uses the extra i, the U.S. drops it. Canada uses both. † The name is said to come from haha, a French word for a boundary to a garden or park. * Davis got his start in Oberlin, Ohio in 1886, peddling kitchenware made of the little-known light metal which his friend Charles Martin Hall had learned to make cheaply. Hall, who died in 1914, left $9,000,000 (one-third of his estate) to Oberlin College, which consequently has a well-endowed faculty...
...takeoff, the sound of roaring engines is heard, coughing a little at first with startling realism. The cabin vibrates convincingly. The monotonous beat of the guiding radio beam throbs in the pilot's headset. If the instructor chooses to start a fire in an engine, an alarm bell blasts, the pilot stops the engine, and the controls react violently. The crew must know instantly how to bring in a crippled plane, be able to find the runway with a blind-landing system. Even the squeak of tires is heard as the wheels hit the concrete on a landing...
When box-office receipts fall off, as they did last month, movie exhibitors try not to blame the product. In Washington, D.C., for example, last fortnight's slump was traced to the start of daylight saving time (the time shift did not seem to unsettle moviegoers in other cities). In St. Louis, the slump was blamed on bad weather; in San Francisco, on good weather. Elsewhere, exhibitors spoke vaguely of "seasonal influences...