Word: aero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mustang pilot nailed his man with a long close-in burst. First the FW's wheels fell out, then the plane exploded and its pieces tumbled earthward. Second Lieut. WauKau Kong, pilot of "Chinaman's Chance" and one of the U.S. Fighter Command's hottest aero-bats, had made his first kill...
...airplane crash? In some cases the cause of death may be his own internal organs. Reason: the impact turns them into internal missiles. So reported an Army doctor (Captain George Marvin Hass of the Army Air Forces School of Aviation Medicine at Randolph Field, Texas) last fortnight to the Aero Medical Association's meeting at Cincinnati...
Leader of the workers' holiday was rash, 30-year-old Harold J. Gibson (married, childless, draft classification 26), president of Seattle's Aero Mechanics' District Council. At week's end, A.F. of L. International officers cracked down on Gibson, warned that there must be no further work stoppage. At week's start the crisis passed. Instead of round-the-clock mass meetings, only a dozen officers of the district governing council sat around a table in Seattle's old Labor Temple. Loudspeakers in the Boeing plants broadcast union warnings to workers to stay...
...books (called the Air-Age Education Series) add an aeronautical third dimension to mathematics, physics, biology, history, geography, economics, politics, even literature. History lessons now plug a new crop of aero-heroes (from Leonardo da Vinci to the Wright Brothers). Biology lessons describe what happens to a pilot when he blacks out. Social science lessons picture a post-war world of "aerial freight trains," and decentralized living. Anthologies of the rich, adventurous literature of flying enliven English lessons...
...flying fame asked for two routes each for his TACA and British West Indian Airways. KLM Royal Dutch Air Lines asked a route to the Dutch West Indies. The other three surviving new applicants are Florida-born National Airlines; Aerovias Nacionales Puerto Rico; and Cuba's new Expreso Aero Inter-Americano. Meanwhile Pan American's own belligerent half-subsidiary Panagra (TIME, March 16) still has an application pending for a terminus in Miami, Tampa or New Orleans...