Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...savea the pig but we kill for this, too." His hand pointed to streets where houses lay tumbled by mines and dynamite, where wooden window shutters rattled against shaky walls. A bitter wind, climbing wildly up the slopes to the rock on which the village stood, set a church bell tolling fitfully. Shawled women poked in the rubble for their pots & pans...
Generals Fly. In July 1941, plans and a completed engine were turned over to the U.S., and American engineers went to work. General Electric, experienced in building turbines and turbosuperchargers, was assigned to produce the engines, Bell Aircraft to build the planes. The first flight of an American model was made on Oct. i, 1942, by lean, studious Robert M. Stanley, Bell test pilot...
...Attention, please!" The amplified voice boomed through the loudspeakers to every corner of Boeing's Wichita plant-"Another blow to the Axis has just been dealt by Boeing workers. Another B-29 has just been delivered to the Army. Listen for the bell. Keep it ringing...
Bong! into the microphone boomed a 1,700-lb., bronze-plated, ear-jarring bell, borrowed for the duration from a Wichita church-one bong for each B-29 completed during the week. For the past month, Boeing workers, feeling fine about their output, have listened to the bell each Monday, slapped each other's backs. Boeing's Vice President J. E. Schaefer calls the weekly ceremony the "hottest morale booster we ever...
...enemy agent from counting the bongs? Any spy with ears could check off the exact number of V-29s being turned off the Wichita line. Finally Air Forces public-relations men could stand it no longer, took the company to task. Nonplussed, Boeing officials asserted that the whole bell-bonging idea had been suggested by no less than Lieut. General Bill Knudsen himself. They hinted that until they heard from some higher rank, the three-star order was good enough for them...