Word: blinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lookouts were posted along both sides of the straightaway, flashlights ready to blink at the first sign of police. The first few cars took off with a roar, sped down the highway at 60, 70, 100 miles an hour. They ripped along two abreast, made oncoming motorists scurry to the side of the road. The boulevard's residents took one resigned look and telephoned the police...
...many businessmen might blink at the narrow control in some industries not usually mentioned in the same breath with aluminum or tobacco. Carpetmakers, for example, were dominated by four firms, Alexander Smith & Sons, James Lees & Sons, Bigelow-Sanford and Mo hawk Carpet, which owned 57.9% of the industry's productive facilities. National Biscuit Co. controlled 46.3% of all net capital assets in its industry in 1947. Armstrong Cork owned 57.9% of all the land, buildings and equipment in the linoleum industry. "Two giant organizations virtually preempt" the making of tin cans, charged the FTC report, with American...
...chief problem is how the sun affects the early--why radios go on the blink when sunspots are heavy, for instance, and why a big tongue of fire on the sun will change the words on a telegram...
...being blackmailed by his bosses. A while back he had run over and killed a child, and he had been saved from prison by the studio's wiliest finagling. Now, when he balks, the studio threatens jail. Later, when things get messier, the studio doesn't blink at plotting the murder of a blabbing witness. Charlie finally feels driven to suicide...
Smoker committeemen have pieced together a program which they hope will make the staid, marble Civil War heroes who line Memorial Hall blink...