Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pope argued, is nothing if not understandable: "Art helps men to know each other ... All maxims which make art fall down from its sublime role profane it, and make it sterile 'Art for Art's Sake...
...forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...bombers are great for speed, but they have not done so well at dropping bombs accurately. At speeds above 350 m.p.h., the bombs were apt to tumble or fall erratically, go wide of the target...
Last week North American Aviation, Inc. announced that it had licked the problem by fitting its four-jet B45 Tornado with new-type bomb-bay doors. Instead of swinging open, they slide into the plane like overhead garage doors. The falling bombs hit a smoothly flowing airstream instead of the uneven eddies stirred up by the old-style doors. Even above 500 m.p.h., all the bombs fall alike, a necessity for good marksmanship...
Most packers thought that meat prices would dip a bit this fall, when big quantities of beef and hogs start moving to market. Meat production is expected to increase 20% over this quarter in the heaviest cattle slaughter since 1944, and consumers should benefit by the big supplies on hand...