turnaroundn.

1936 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Aug. 11/6 The dirigible Hindenburg landed..at the Naval Air Station tonight for what was expected to be the quickest turn-around in transatlantic airship service.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Apr. 17/6 Another feature of the day's market was the turn-around of two loads of 100-pound Iowa wooled lambs which brought $18.55.

1952 Sun (Baltimore) 9 Oct. 5/4 At present the two queens have a 48-hour turnaround at Southampton.

1971 D. Bagley Freedom Trap ix. 202 The skipper was returning in the tender. It seemed as though they intended a faster turnaround than Gibralter.

1974 T. P. Whitney tr. A. Solzhenitsyn Gulag Archipel. I. ii. i. 497 So that the prisoner shouldn't attempt to escape during the moment he was in the toilet, and also for a faster turn~around, the door to the toilet was not closed.

1977 Sci. Amer. Jan. 127/1 Ships designed to carry a unitized cargo, for ease of transshipment, quick turnaround, low damage and low longshore labor costs.

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 30 Dec. 15/1 Many [railroad bonds] had been depressed to the lowest level since 1938 prior to the turn-around late last week.

1961 N.Y. World-Telegram 15 Mar. 31/2 Yet this would mean a turn-around in the trend of residential construction.

1972 M. Williams Inside Number 10 iv. 82 He was found an office and in the general turnaround the Private Secretary..was shifted from the study..to a large room on the first floor.

1975 N.Y. Times 19 May 18/4 The migration to the Arkansas countryside is part of a national turnaround in population.

1984 Times 13 Jan. 13/1 Associated Newspapers..yesterday disclosed a £ 5m turnaround from loss to profit.

1954 C. Armstrong Better to eat You vi. 63 He..ran across the turn-around and the parking apron.

1969 ‘F. Richards’ Risky Way to Kill (1970) vi. 68 She swung the Volks in the graveled turnaround, so that it headed back the way it had come.

1975 New Yorker 31 Mar. 29/3 Then they..got into the truck, circled the turnaround, and drove straight off.

1984 New Yorker 7 May 57/3 I turned up my driveway and parked in the turnaround.

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren vii. 116 I can do the splits, I can do the turn-arounds, I can do the kicks.

1960 T. McLean Kings of Rugby 212 Then, at the turnaround, when the Lions now had the northerly wind at their backs, the change which came over the game was remarkable.

1962 A. Shepard in Into Orbit 108 I could feel the capsule begin its slow, lazy turnaround to get into position for the rest of the flight.

1944 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Aug. 12/5 The ‘Big Inch’ line..has done the work of 23,000 tank cars operating on an 18-day turn-around schedule.

1946 Sun (Baltimore) 27 Dec. 6/1 Ease of maintenance and servicing will cut costs and turn-around time.

1950 Sun (Baltimore) 14 Aug. 10/6 The harbor to be built at Lake Washington will consist of a turn~around area 1,000 feet square.

1959 Wall St. Jrnl. 29 July 6/3 He described the current period as a ‘turn~around year’ leading to higher sales and earnings next year.

1976 National Observer (U.S.) 17 July 7/3 There ought to be some turnaround time to get into a system different than the one that has existed for nearly 40 years.