Word: aero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...originality of Aero-painting-music-poetry Is created under enemy's fire...
...Futurist Manifesto to Liberate Ourselves From English Habits . . . tea-drinking, snobbery, golfing, pipe-smoking, bridge-playing and an inexplicable apathy toward women." Last week, as Benito Mussolini busily drafted his declaration of war, Signor Marinetti rallied round him his most formidable talents-which he currently calls aeropoetry, aeropainting and aero-music. Aeropainting has occasionally taken the form of a view of half an airplane; the other half, says the speed-loving Futurist, is going so fast it cannot be seen. Aero-music is usually recorded motor roars with interspersed backfires. It was to aeropoetry that Futurist Marinetti turned last week...
...something like 2,450 planes, 3,200 engines. Total of all U. S. aircraft pur chases by the Allies since the outbreak of war: $650,000,000, almost three times the total of aircraft sales for 1939, more than twice the aggregate value of U. S. aero nautical exports to the world market in the past 18 years. More was to come. Before the Allies have finished the "first phase" of their aircraft procurement program (reputedly within the next few months), they will place another $350,000,000 of orders for delivery in the next 18 months. Manufacturers, hanging...