Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fire drills may come and fire drills may go, but one will live forever in our memories. It was our first, but we have reason to believe not our last. At two in the morning the fire-bell started its clanging, loud and persistent. We made a pretty sight, streaming into the living room in pajamas, heavy shoes, bathrobes popped by overcoats, carrying towels and rubbing our eyes. Now that we know what t do in a fire drill, we're expectantly awaiting an air raid drill. Diversions never cease...
Although Chet Davis rang the bell four times, Adams House used Lowell's goalie and so had to forfeit their game to Kirkland. A long, looping shot that just caught the corner of the cage spelled ruin for Dudley as it dropped a close decision to Leverett...
...this sad tale is, briefly: The men of Company 1, having purchased only one pair of pants with their uniform, put on that one pair to go on liberty the week-end before they heard they had been selected to come to Harvard. The turned in their undress bell- bottoms the first of that following week and remained clad in their sole pair of dress trousers. The still...
...Bell Aircraft's first break came in 1937 when it proudly announced the Airacuda, a freakish-looking, poor-flying bomber-fighter which got a burst of publicity but little else. Then came Bell's first success: the Airacobra, a flashy, 400-m.p.h., single-place fighter which has a cannon in its nose and climbs like an express elevator...
...Luck and the Orders. A hit from the start, the Airacobra pulled Bell Aircraft from an experimental laboratory to a production plant almost as fast as it rockets through the sky. The U.S. Army ordered 13, then 80, then thousands. The British ordered 200, then 800. Meanwhile Larry got orders for thousands of machine-gun adapters, hundreds of Flying Fortress fuselage parts. To handle this whirlwind of business, Bell Aircraft expanded again & again, built another large plant, boosted employment from 60 to over 10,000. Result: squadrons of Bell Airacobras now fight in Britain, Australia and Russia, have knocked down...