Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mukden's commander, and stir him to a more active defense. As the garrison from starving Changchun hacked southward to join the Mukden forces, Wei's columns drove down to retake the port of Yingkow, reopening Mukden to direct sea supply. More of Wei's troops thrust west to relieve Chinhsien...
...heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...
...discharge opening can be varied in size to get the best division of exhaust energy between supercharging and jet thrust. The result is an engine with 4,000 (instead of 3,500) h.p., without proportionate increase in weight. The Air Force intends to use the hybrid in its newest heavy bomber...
Sunday Punch. For 34 years, until he quit in 1942 after a quarrel with the Astors, hawk-nosed Editor J. L. Garvin had thrust his greatness upon the Observer and thumped British breakfast tables with his stubborn leaders, often three or four columns long. "The English Sunday," said a rival, "would be incomplete without his weekly thunderstorm." When Garvin parted with the Astors, Fleet Streeters bet that the Observer would collapse. But today, a team rather than a one-man show, the Observer is a sounder paper, if a less disturbing...
...pigtailed, freckled nine-year-old tripped into the Cleveland Press last week and asked to see the editor. Instead of being shooed away, she was led straight to his office. Louis B. Seltzer shook Ruth Harriger by the hand, then gravely read the note she thrust out to him. It was from Ruth's father, an ex-Clevelander now living in New Mexico. He had written her to be sure to call on the Press while visiting in Cleveland. Busy Editor Seltzer dropped everything to take her on a tour of his shop, bought her an ice cream...