Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instead of erasing the lines of his bomb-threatened factory in a hazy chiaroscuro of paint and props, today's camoufleur makes it look like something else (an innocent farmhouse or a block of houses). He hopes to disguise all nearby landmarks, to give the surrounding terrain an unexpected look. If his elaborate system of obfuscation causes the enemy bombardier to hesitate in the single fleeting moment when accurate aim is possible at 20,000 ft. and 400 miles per hour, the bomber may have to return amid antiaircraft fire for a second try or else go home with...
Detroit's famed Purple Gang, approached with a block of the stamps at half price, recoiled in horror. Last week the Secret Service closed in, picked up six men and 210,000 stamps. Howard F. Corcoran, chief assistant U.S. attorney, summed up: "I con-sider this case one of the worst." For once the underworld agreed with...
...back to work on the Jap's hideouts. They fired buildings and planes at Lae, hit heavily at Rabaul, ranged 700 miles north to the old Dutch naval, base at Amboina, where they fired docks and potted three small freighters. The Jap sent up swarms of Zeros to block them, found again that modern bombers with tail turrets are by no means basement bargains for fighter pilots...
George McNear got into railroading in 1926, when he spied T.P. & W. on the auction block, outbid giant Pennsylvania R.R. by paying $1,300,000 ($130,000 in cash). T.P. & W. hardly seemed a bargain, but it had one big asset: over its 239 miles of track (between Effner, Ind. and Keokuk, Iowa) transcontinental freight can save days by dodging the Chicago terminal bottleneck. McNear got to work and within 45 days the long-bankrupt road was making money. It has made money ever since. Last year it earned a neat $365,000 on $2,775,000 revenue...
...that fastens the cowling on a plane's nose to the fuselage. He couldn't produce enough, and he wouldn't license anyone else. Ergo: U.S. bombers and fighters waited while Dzus failed to deliver. Said Thurman Arnold: "A perfect example of a patent . . . acting to block entire assembly lines...