Word: warmups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phil Murray threw the right-wingers a fish. Last week, in the warmup before the 630 delegates convened, he got the national executive board to change the rules governing state & city industrial councils. Many of these councils are riddled with Reds and have embarrassed C.I.O. with their pro-Communist trumpetings. Under the new rules they will be under strict censorship and surveillance by the executive board (dominated by Murray...
...until the fourth night-after a warmup of Delibes, Mozart and Puccini -will the curtains part on the serious business of a Wagnerian music drama. That night in Siegfried, the fans will get the season's first eye-&-earful of the reigning queen of the Met, heroic-voiced, heroic-sized Helen Traubel...
Fred Allen subbed for Clifton Fadiman on Information, Please, whined in a pre-broadcast warmup: "A [radio] vice president is a bit of executive fungus that forms on a desk that has been exposed to conferences. In radio, a conference is a meeting of a group of men who singly can do nothing, but who collectively agree that nothing can be done...
...strikeout and a pop fly, the pressure was off Wallace, but he suddenly went wild, tired badly, and walked three men in a row, forcing in two runs and leaving the sacks jammed. At this point, Coach Stahl yanked Wallace and called in Norm Wholley. Wholley took his warmup pitches, got the first batter he faced on a routine grounder to short, and the game was over...
Engine Design. Since it has only one moving gear (the compressor and turbine, mounted on the same shaft), the jet en gine needs little oil. The plane needs no warmup, is ready to fly 30 seconds after the motor starts. The pilot, relieved of worries about oil pressure, fuel mixture, propeller pitch, etc., has only three controls to operate: the stick, the throttle and rudder pedals. Test pilots have found the P-59 more maneuverable in the air than a conventional plane. Taxiing on the ground is tricky. Because there is no propeller to blow wind against the tail...