Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near side of the fence, some equally certain statements can be made. The U.S. and its allies are not mounting an attack on Russia. They too are trying to strengthen their defenses and they have concentrated in Britain a bomber force capable of striking a very hard, retaliatory, atomic blow if the Red Army moves against the West...
...hush Office of Strategic Services "I got all types of highly secret information on what OSS was doing . . . secret negotiations in the Balkans, and that parachutists were being dropped." From George Silverman and one Ludwig Ullman, both in Air Force headquarters, she got some details of the B-29 bomber, data on other new types of planes, and the destinations of planes to war theaters. Between nervous puffs on a cigarette, she said: "We knew about D-day long before D-day happened...
...Idlewild Airport's opening last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the biggest crowds gathered around the Air Force's huge (six engines, 230-foot wingspread) 6-36 bomber. But what made U.S. airlines take notice were the details which Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. released on a recent trip of its "flying cigar." The monster had taken off with the heaviest load ever lifted by an airplane (a gross weight of 300,000 Ibs.) and flown nonstop for 6,000 miles at more than 300 m.p.h. From San Diego, the ship went north to Seattle, back to San Diego, then...
...Window, not windows, is correct; and it was used, as Lieut. Colonel Smith thought, to draw attention from actual formations, as well as to create a false impression that larger formations were aloft. Each two-ounce package of "dehydrated bomber" scattered over Germany looked to radar like three Flying Fortresses...
...second round. They stopped momentarily in the third, when jiggling Jersey Joe Walcott threw a punch that knocked Champion Joe Louis to his knees. Then the boys lapsed back into their waltz. The referee barked at them to pep it up. The big fight-the famed Brown Bomber's last-was smelling up Yankee Stadium...