Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ladies, I wish you would stop talking about the high prices of meat until you are ready to help bring them down. During the depression you were glad to get the cheaper cuts of meat, but now I can't even sell them...
...some speeds, thinks the NACA, the most efficient airplane may be shaped like an arrowhead. For others, it may have short, broad "stub" wings. They do not stop at "moderate" speeds such as Mach 1.5, but think boldly about speeds two or three times as fast. Obstacles do not discourage them. At Mach 4, they calculate, air friction will heat the leading edge (perhaps the whole body) of an airplane to about 1,200° F. This is red hot, and above the softening point of ordinary structural metals. "But," say the NACA men, "wings can be cooled artificially...
...show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
Fogo, a Halifax lawyer, Nova Scotia-born-&-bred, is a man without political ambitions for himself, a reliable worker behind the scenes, whose political gift is to stop bootless quarreling and secure quiet settlements. Liberals expect him to make a good convention co-chairman (French-Canadian cochairman, Joseph Blanchette). But since he was only 23 when the last Liberal convention was held, he has a bit to learn about the procedure...
...Master. Dean Cromwell, 68, who once sold automobiles, is a man who never lets anybody beat him away from a stop light. He drives like a madman, wears natty bow ties, and loves to talk. At Kiwanis and Rotary luncheons he likes to say: "I don't train the boys, they train themselves." With a great show of modesty he also insists that he "has never hurt a good runner," and even his enemies grant him this...