Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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When the depression flattened the auto business, Budd's loss snowballed to $1,785,000. To keep his shopmen busy, Budd began building lightweight railroad passenger cars, using the company's patented "Shotweld" process for joining stainless steel sheets. Roads bought the cars eagerly, but Edward Budd spent money hand over fist experimenting on such products as stainless steel masts for ships...
James Rathschmidt, in charge of Princeton lightweight rowing before the war and head freshman coach since 1946, succeeds Allen (Skip) Walz, who resigned to enter private industry. His 1942 150-pound crew established a record for the Henley distance at Carnegie Lake which still stands. He has also enjoyed considerable success with his freshman crews...
Quack Monologue. The current Satevepost collection (No. 5 in a series that has been appearing since 1946) lacks the work of such distinguished old-time Post regulars as John P. Marquand, Guy Gilpatric and Clarence Budington Kelland. But its breezy, lightweight stories are done by expert literary carpenters, e.g., Gerald Kersh and Steve McNeil, who know the formula perfectly. Moreover, the collection makes no claim to being the best literature of this or any other year...
This is a lightweight (300 Ibs.), easily handled weapon for close support of infantry; it can fire about 30 rounds a minute...
...Tempo VI. Jones had it all worked out. On the straightaways, Slo-Mo-Shun skimmed along with its 1,500-h.p. Allison engine wide open, leaving a spectacular rooster-tail wake that shot 30 ft. into the air. On the turns, to save damage to his boat's lightweight hull, Driver Jones slowed down like a Sunday excursionist...