Word: sticking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail and rudder control surfaces for steering, pilots steer with the wheel brakes...
Whoever Mayor Houde's antagonists were, they would need plenty of proof to back their charges, plenty of energy to make them stick. Hardly anyone doubted that Houde, wily in the ways of politics, would be able to wriggle free. Montreal, long used to political free-for-alls, sat back to watch...
...speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking ace of the Boston Bruins...
...produced by Oliver Smith & Paul Feigay) is a youthful high dive that hits the water with a terrific splash. Spoil-sports may find fault with its diving form and point out that it comes up looking wet behind the ears; but if sheer enjoyment is not an outmoded measuring stick, On the Town is one of the freshest, liveliest, most engaging musicals in many years. Its fund of humor, flashes of satire and scorn for formulas make it better adult entertainment than many, if not most, less youthful shows...
When 1944 as a year of production has receded to a position of a mere statistical measuring stick, it may become famous as a year of economic thought. The unfulfilled promise of peace set off a furious wave of planning. Those who make the U.S. economy what it is-businessmen and labor leaders, primarily, and, secondarily, government officials and economists -were forced to face up to three problems...