Word: lengthening
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot Claude banked the big DC-6 into line with the twinkling lights of Love Field's long north-south runway, lowered the wheels and wingflaps for landing. Suddenly the outboard right engine sputtered and died. The two good engines bellowed as he poured power to them to lengthen his glide, but the Aztec was caught-sluggish and vu'nerable-in the drag of her extended landing gear and flaps. "She's a goner." shouted First Officer Robert Lewis. The Aztec's nose went up as she shuddered in a stall. Her left wing dipped...
...Alarmed at the number of businessmen who were dying off at the peak of their careers, a Great Neck, N.Y. group last week started a nationwide campaign called "Relax, U.S.A.," to save and lengthen lives. Take time out every so often to recharge the batteries, said the group, by 1) merely drowsing; 2) leisurely puffing on a cigar; 3) looking at the trees and the clouds...
...lengthen "America's greatest highway," Wall Street last week made the biggest revenue bond offering in its history. Headed by Drexel & Co., B. J. Van Ingen & Co. Inc., Blyth & Co.; Inc. and the First Boston Corp., a syndicate of 217 dealers began marketing a Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issue totaling $134 million. A third of the amount will refund the commission's present bonds. The rest will pay for extending the turnpike 100 miles eastward to King of Prussia, just outside Philadelphia...
Second Ballot. The jockeying by the front-runners begins. Each will hope to leave the field far behind. Many of the favorite sons will drop out and go to their second choices. Dewey will probably lengthen his lead, to 360-plus. Taft might go to 250-plus. Stassen would slip. Vandenberg will begin to show up ahead of the other favorite sons, probably get up to 100-plus votes...
Three more Eliot House teams wound up on top of Straus trophy competition yesterday to lengthen the Mastodon lead as the winter intramural schedules swung into their last week of action...