Word: seating
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Dewey kept his famous pre-election promise. When failing old (74) Republican Joe Hanley stepped aside last September so that Dewey could run for a third term, Dewey made "an ironclad, unbreakable arrangement" with Hanley to give him a state job in case he failed to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. The "Hanley Letter," in which Joe discussed the deal and his own big debts, was the sensation of the campaign. Last week, Defeated Candidate Joe Hanley, who has lost one eye and is having trouble with the other, got his consolation prize: a $16,000-a-year...
...Like Toothpaste. As the air rushed out of the cabin, the doomed dummy rose from its seat, shot toward the window and was forced through it like toothpaste extruded from a tube. When the pressure simulated an altitude of 40,000 ft., the dummy shot clear across the room, its legs and its arms detached...
After repeating the experiment many times, Swearingen decided that if a passenger is sitting less than 7½ inches from the window (i.e., in the window seat) he will be "captured" by the outrushing air. Farther away (i.e., in the aisle seat), a passenger would be safer...
...test this conclusion, Swearingen himself sat in the aisle seat. When the window blew out, the inner seat rose in the air, spun around and tried to ram itself through the window. Swearingen's body jerked slightly as the air clawed at it. He insisted that he was in no danger, but other CAA men testified that "he couldn't light a cigarette for five minutes afterward...
...carefully observed that while he had not abandoned hope of a settlement, the word "hopeful" was still too strong to describe his feelings. Secretary General Trygve Lie, who had advocated a seat for the Chinese Communists in the U.N., also refused to surrender hope. "I cannot believe," he said, "that the hand of friendship, extended in this spirit, would be, for long, rejected by any nation or any people...