Word: used
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denny, let go with what sounded almost like a declaration of war. NBC was going to stay on top as the nation's No. 1 network. Said he: "It has the money and the resources to back up [its] plans. And, above all, it has the resolve to use its money, its experience, and its every effort for that purpose...
Problem: how to make a jet engine work under water. Solution: make it use a fuel that burns in water instead...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
When it lost money in the next six years, its passengers darkly suspected the Pennsy of milking its stepchild by overcharging for the use of its Manhattan terminal and East River tunnels. In 1940, the Interstate Commerce Commission found some truth in this. It made the Pennsy kick back $5.6 million of these charges to the Long Island, and make a new contract that trimmed a million a year off the rents...
...readers will plug right along until they find out whether the yellow girl gets off or not. Before they get through, however, a good many who order this one will understand the words of Kirk's plain-spoken sister-in-law: "There ain't a mite of use of dodging pain. [God will] hand you the cup, and then you got to dreen...