Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with as quickly as possible...
High House in the last day stretch was Adams, which placed second in the previous week. Total sales in the leading House amounted to $90.95, far outstripping Winthrop, which dropped from its lead position of a week ago. Fourteen dollars provided the margin between the two, Show money went to Kirkland amassing $55.20 in the same period, while Leverett and Lowell followed in that order, both in the fifty-dollar group. Eliot House dug deeper into its pockets this time and came up with $7 more than last week...
Still unruffled, Stokowski got down to the main business of the evening, Shostakovich's 80-minute masterwork. Discreetly Conductor Stokowski had cut the symphony's tortuous length by nearly half, but as he boomed and rattled into the home stretch of the first movement the audience shuffled and groaned impatiently, electricians began jabbering over their microphones, newsreel men noisily ground their cameras. Suddenly Stokowski stopped the orchestra. Said he: "Men, there is a little more of this symphony to play. I do not know whether you want to hear it and it does not matter...
...eight or nine readings in five minutes-correct to the nearest 10 or 15 degrees. The automatic observer takes and prints 144 temperature readings of cylinders, propeller bearings, oil in the fuel lines, carburetors, etc. every three or four minutes for as long as eight hours at a stretch. It can also measure normally impossible to get pressure on wing struts, bulkheads, tail surfaces...
...tailors lyrics to fit the suavely hocketing voice of his friend Bing Crosby, rolls up between $50,000 and $85,000 a year in cinema lyric contracts and ASCAP royalties. A one-finger pianist, he does his composing with the help of Tunesmith Harold Arlen. After a two-hour stretch with Tunesmith Arlen, he usually knocks off for an afternoon of golf. Says Johnny: "If I get a good title and the first couple of lines within two hours, that's a damn good day. . . . Most of my titles and lyrics I make up in my head...