Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stainless steel is more durable, stands up four times better than aluminum under the incessant vibrations and strains which can "fatigue" a plane's metal structure to the breaking point. Result : longtime maintenance of steel planes is easier. Hitherto this factor has not been important, but engineers think that after the war air transports will be built (like railroad cars) to stand the strain of at least ten years of heavy duty...
Warmer weather eases the strain of navigating the mist-curtained Arctic sea lanes to Murmansk. But such meteorological relief works alike for friend & foe. Last week Luftwaffe planes spotted a huge Allied convoy specking the slate-grey sea between Iceland and Norway's North Cape. They engaged the convoy in a running, four-day battle, claimed to have inflicted grave losses: 14 ships sunk, 16 damaged. No confirmation came from any Allied source...
...Information, Please. In quarter-page newspaper ads, Pacific Tel. & Tel. begged subscribers to make sure the number they want is not in the telephone book before they harass information operators. P.T. & T. wants to reform some 242,000 lazy characters who strain war-taxed switchboards by asking for listed numbers...
Politesse. In Chicago, Gordon Sheehe (of Northwestern University's famed Traffic Safety Institute), mindful of the strain of wartime living, offered a new precept for traffic cops: "Officers must learn to disregard remarks made by the motorist due to his upset condition, must avoid argument and keep their tempers under control...
Floyd Stahl realized he needed both games to lighten his League-race worries, and the division of the spoils will now make it necessary to do better than the predicted split with Dartmouth on Wednesday. Chief strain will be on the pitching staff, since after the double-header with the Indians the Varsity will play host to Princeton on Saturday...