Word: followings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like your spicy lingo, and I reckon that regulars figure out the initialese (G.O.P., EGA, etc.). It's fairly easy now to follow Big John with his sidekicks in a souped-up Caddy to the hot-stove-league ball game at the jampacked Rose Bowl . . . I could creep into a flophouse, speakeasy, hot-spot or crap-joint with a pretty clear idea of what I'd be in there for. And although I admit that there are times when I could cheerfully hospitalize your typewriter-pecking hoodlums with a double whammy from Fowler's English Usage...
...first picture, The Fleet's In, Betty complained to De Sylva that the director and cameraman were leaving her out of things. They politely explained: "We can't keep her in the camera." De Sylva had a camera dolly rigged up and told the director to follow her all over the set if necessary. "You can't keep her quiet," he said. "You'll lose her." But as he brought Betty slowly along to starring parts, De Sylva tried to impress her with the need for channeling her energy instead of letting it run all over...
...friendly, even-tempered Democrat who lives quietly with his wife (the daughter of Conductor Walter Damrosch) in Manhattan, Tom Finletter seemed a good choice to settle the boiling controversy over aircraft procurement. Best bet was that Secretary Finletter would follow Secretary Symington's line: agree to a 48-group Air Force now, as the President ordered; keep plugging for a 70-group Air Force as the minimum safe air defense...
...electronic instrument-landing methods are already in practical use. One, ILS (InstrumentLanding System), projects into the sky a narrow beam of high-frequency radio waves. Slanting at a gentle angle, the beam forms a "glide path" which an airplane equipped with the proper instruments can follow down through...
...eliminated by the automatic pilot. Already the autopilot flies many airliners on long, boring hops, keeping them on course by its own gyroscopic control of the aircraft. It responds more promptly than a human pilot. Instrument men believe that it could be made to listen for electronic orders and follow them down to the ground...