Word: faster
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Canada, planes had to land at tiny (pop. 6.000) Houlton. Me., then be towed across the line into Canada. Hitler's legions were faster...
Lord Beaverbrook, the Napoleonic little publisher whom Prime Minister Churchill put in charge of airplane production and procurement, announced that since May 11, with workmen functioning in twelve-hour shifts seven days' a week, British warplanes were coming out 62% faster than before, that all equipment losses of the Flanders campaign were replaced, that his buyers were snapping up every bit of U. S. product available. Shortage' of air-power kept Allied expenditure of men & ships carefully calculated...
...Benny Carter and "Bugle Call" and "Slow Freight" by Glenn Miler if you want to hear the difference between a band of men that can really play, and a bunch of kids straining and not getting there. Carter's arrangement of "Sleep" is just as fast if not faster than Miller's "Bugin Call," but it has none of the tenseness and lack of molo-Ideas that the Miller does. Glenn copied Carter's record of "Slow "Freight" and even then it isn't as good as a total picture or as good Jazz. And for rendition of "Bugle Call...
...World War II. Washington VI nonetheless is far ahead of Washington V: longer (125 ft.); 16-inch armor (instead of tapering from 16 to 14 inches); two layers of deck armor, instead of a single, three-inch layer (the upper one six inches thick, the lower four inches); faster (rated at 28 knots, expected to better that; the last Washington was rated at 21 knots). Probable cost: a whopping...
...House of Commons shot the Act through the required three readings by a series of acclamations without recorded ballots. The House of Lords moved even faster. Exactly 163 minutes after being introduced by Socialist Attlee it was signed by King George VI and promulgated. Same day Parliament supplemented the ancient Treason Acts by passing a streamlined Treachery Bill, and under its drastic provisions Home Secretary Sir John Anderson was soon blitzing fifth columnists...