Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense sites occupied temporarily during the war, almost all had been restored. The remaining 14-fighter strips and radar outposts-would give the Panama Canal adequate defense in an air age. One of the fields, Rió Hato, would be built into a $25,000,000 bomber base, under a ten-year lease that could be renewed for a further ten years. Conceivably, with Panama defenses stabilized, the U.S. might now proceed to build a sea-level canal-if Congress had a billion dollars to spare...
Some of the thousands had paid $30 for seats euphemistically marked "ringside." They didn't really expect to see a fight. They had come to see the one & only Joe Louis, the famed Brown Bomber who had knocked out 21 of the 23 men who challenged his heavyweight title in the past ten years-and this might be his last appearance. Nobody knew or cared much about the man Big Joe was fighting. Even the champ, who is honest clear through, admitted that his foe-old Jersey Joe Walcott-was a second-rater...
Over the English Channel near Lands End, a Mosquito light bomber climbed to 36,400 feet. Lanky "boffin" (scientific expert) Gerald Bernard Lockee Bayne of the Ministry of Supply touched the bomb-release button, and "Vicky," the Ministry's bomb-airplane-rocket, plunged down through the thin, cold...
Miners at the Brynhenllys mine in Wales struck for an even more trivial reason. There 300 men wildcatted because Will Rees was assigned a new pit pony, named "Britton," instead of his five-year favorite "Bomber." They returned to work only when Rees got Bomber back...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...