Word: lighters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coach Lloyd Jordan put the Crimson eleven through a controlled scrimmage and emphasized passing in yesterday's practice at Soldiers Field. The drill was considerably lighter than Tuesday's session...
...Bypass. But Rolls's most promising engine is its improved Conway bypass jet,* which it claims turns up 13,000 Ibs. of thrust from a power plant that is both lighter and more economical than its U.S. competitors in the big jet field, such as Pratt & Whitney...
...Western bloc, one-third with the Eastern bloc, and one-third with the rest of the world. If our trade had all been with the West, we would be in a very critical position today. Thank God we had this policy." He lit another cigarette, fingered his Dunhill lighter nervously...
...years writing about his early adventures (Half Safe, William Morrow & Co., Inc. $5) and refitting his ship. He lengthened her sloping superstructure fore and aft, thickened her neoprene waterproofing, beefed up her fuel capacity. Interior steel fittings were replaced with aluminum and plastic until the craft was 600 Ibs. lighter. All told, the Half Safe weighed 3½ tons with a full cargo; every spare inch was filled with equipment−radio, stove, water jugs, oil cans, camera film, cans of food and dirty laundry...
...nothing to alter that situation. Before his writing lifted him into rarefied financial levels, Shute was an aeronautical engineer who helped design and fly Britain's dirigible R.100 on its transatlantic flight of 1930.* His fiction has some of the improbable, inflated, but often entertaining quality of the lighter-than-air-machines...