Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombs & Scrap Iron. At most plants, the experts found that the bombs which had been dropped were too light for maximum destruction. Incendiaries were sprinkled only sparingly on the inviting wreckage of fuel dumps. So many bombs were duds that one bomber in six which fought its way from England to Germany and back actually delivered nothing more devastating than a load of scrap iron...
...Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Trovers Harris (ret.), former head of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, arrived in Manhattan, with fetchingly beautiful Lady Harris and small daughter, to visit friends ("fast, furiously, and well"), get one more decoration in Washington, and then move on to retirement in South Africa. Frayed tweed topcoat, mangled green felt hat, shocking-pink mustache...
...Roosevelt's death, Mussolini's, Hitler's, Germany's surrender, UNO's birth, Labor's victory in England, the bomber crash into the Empire State Building, the Potsdam Declaration, the atomic bomb, Japan's surrender, the war-crimes trial, the U.A.W. strike. Hearst's I.N.S. "best ten" list added the Pearl Harbor inquiry...
...Last month a converted British Lancaster bomber made a survey flight from London to Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Peru. The British plan a regular commercial service on that route...
...Mixmaster. Planemaker Donald Douglas' Santa Monica plant was also abustle. The U.S. Army was ready to take the wraps off its sleek but weird-looking new light bomber, the XB-42 (see cut). What gave it the weird look were two propellers, rotating in opposite directions, behind the tail. What made it important to Douglas was that it is the military prototype of his DC-8 (the Skybus), his chief hope for a profitable postwar future. The XB-42 (facetiously dubbed the "Mix-master") is in the 4Oo-m.p.h. class. The DC-8 will be slower, cruising...