Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...power that thermals (masses of hot air forming at the earth's surface and rising, to give lift) and air currents provide. With this power, sailplanes have soared to an altitude of almost 23,000 feet, and a Russian woman, who holds the international distance record, sailed non-stop for 465 miles...
...fortnight's tornado (TiME, April 21). While union officials ordered workers to ignore the emergency and stay on strike, 30 union operators rushed back to their jobs. Last week they made the strike's end official, sent in their resignations with a blistering telegram: "Girls refuse to stop. Will work as long as needed. . . . Would be ashamed of a union which would put up pickets in a disaster like this...
...York City, impulsive Bus Driver William Cimillo, who skipped to Florida with his employer's new $18,000 bus (TIME, April 14), was back at his old job (on probation). At every passenger stop, he received a hero's ovation...
Playing music for the movies and radio is like driving in traffic; everything depends on the red & green lights of the script. Four years ago, tired of stop-&-start performances, a group of Hollywood's best studio musicians organized their own symphony orchestra. Last week, their Santa Monica Civic Symphony Orchestra, with Jacques Rachmilovich conducting, made its recording debut with Aram Khachaturian's Masquerade Suite (Asch, 5 sides). Although it has little of the pounding, rhythmic vigor of the Soviet composer's later Gayne Ballet Suite (TIME, March 24), this graceful reflection of a glittering Imperial Russian...
...singing in a nightclub (by June Duprez), such side dishes of menace as a suspect gentleman in a turban, and some reasonably exciting mayhem in a pitch dark hangar. Gradually the investigators realize that they have unwittingly been flying the Hump for a gang of jewel thieves who will stop at nothing-not even the picture's denouement...