Word: trimming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last year 26 international airlines crisscrossed Germany for a gross of 225 million DM ($53.6 million). In December alone, they carried 114,000 passengers (25% German). Lufthansa has already set up shop in Europe's largest, most modern hangar, in Hamburg, hired 700 employees, including a covey of trim stewardesses. Its bosses, moreover, are no novices in the harshly competitive airline business, but old hands. Hans M. Bongers, Lufthansa's chief, ran the line's prewar business department; Technical Director Gerhard Höltje is another veteran...
Paris Painter Georges Mathieu appears to be crazy like a fox-one with a particularly long and wavy brush. A slim, trim dandy of 34, he has made a good living as a pressagent. And by adroitly publicizing himself, Mathieu has recently become the reigning darling of advance-guard art, has no trouble selling (at prices ranging from $600 to $3,400) pictures that take only from a few minutes to a few hours to paint. Last week a new exhibition of Mathieu's paintings was on view at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery, and proved...
From the crew's description and the wreckage, United learned that a tiny nut in the tail-elevator-trim mechanism had come loose, jamming the controls in dive position. The airline grounded its 54 Convairs as a safety precaution and the Civil Aeronautics Administration sent out orders to all other airlines to check for defective elevator controls on their Convairs...
...Gymnasts are also strong in the 440 free style. Their captain, Bruce Hutchinson, has covered this distance in 4:49 and can probably can trim this to 4:45 in his own pool. Andy Schennheiter is close behind him with a five minute clocking, still better than any Crimson time...
...assembled before being touched by human hands. To start with, electric circuits are printed on plastic boards with a light coating of metal. As they are carried automatically down an assembly line, machines stamp out holes for tubes and condensers, attach wire jumpers and resistors to the boards, and trim wire leads to size. Time: less than a minute. Whenever a part fails to feed into the line, the whole operation stops automatically, and a red light indicates the point of trouble. Tubes are still installed by hand, but by year's end Admiral expects to be producing entire...