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...there's no turning back: we're in this until Stevenson releases us at the convention." Los Angeles Democratic Leader Paul Ziffren, who could be De Sapio's twin for looks, signed the Stevenson telegram. Nevertheless, he visited De Sapio and tried to soften the thrust...
...airfield at 500 ft. in a radius of less than a mile; on one occasion a Boeing test pilot put it through a slow roll at 2,000 ft. The plane will be powered by Pratt & Whitney's J57 engine, the most powerful (well over 10,000 lbs. thrust) in production in the Western world. (The J57 drives such key military planes as the B-52 bomber and F-102 fighter...
...engineering man hours to design its plane. It will closely resemble the 707, have swept-back wings and underslung engine pods, which reduce the danger of fire or structural damage if an engine breaks down. The DC-8 will have the heavier, more powerful (well over 15,000 lbs. thrust) Pratt & Whitney J75 engine. Both planes will be fitted with newly developed silencers to cut the scream of their jets on the ground, plus a device to reverse the jet thrust so that they can be stopped quickly after landing...
John Hadik, at right halfback, anticipated excellently and frequently covered the fullback spot that Sargent or Beaver had to vacate to block a scoring thrust. Denny Little, left half, tackled with his accustomed pugnacity, and Stacey Holmes could be depended on to clear the ball from in front of the goal...
Burns saw no recession in sight, thought that the U.S. is still feeling the thrust of inflation, although with lessening force. Said he: "The widespread tendency toward increasingly liberal credit terms, which existed several months ago, has apparently run its course. Some improvement in the quality of new mortgage loans is now under way. The same is true of the consumer installment loans being made by some important lenders, though by no means all. Although the total expansion of loans by financial institutions has been continuing at a rapid rate, the loan funds are coming from past and current savings...