Word: 4s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...T.W.A. pilot for nine years, Thornburg entered the Navy in 1940, was an operations officer for the Naval Air Transport Service for the Caribbean and South America. When he got out of the Navy in 1946, he joined Waterman Airlines. With six planes - two DC-4s and four DC-3s - he has operated a nonscheduled service to Puerto Rico, Central America, England, Germany and South Africa, an intrastate line between six Alabama cities...
...Series to Date Year Harvard Yale Year Harvard Yale 1875-76 4g-4t 0 1910 0 0 1876-77 3t 1g 1911 0 0 (Yale won) 1912 20 0 1878 0 1g 1913 15 5 1879 0 0 1914 36 0 1880 0 1g,1t 1915 41 0 1881 4s 0 1916 3 6 (Yale...
...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...
Officially, military authorities declared that there was no conclusive proof that the "frequent celestial phenomena" were caused by a foreign power; they suggested tactfully that most of the missiles, after cruising in a wide semicircle over Sweden, proceeded toward Russia. Unofficial Swedes simply called the mystery missiles "Russian V-4s...
Eight miles southeast of Berlin German scientists were working on V- (V=Vergeltung=Reprisal) under the supervision of Soviet scientists and military personnel. Known to the Germans as Magnetische Luftabwehrwaffe, the V-4s is an improved high-altitude magnetic rocket...