Word: boneyards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American flanks of overdog Pan American Airways Corp., and has won permits to operate in such Pan Am territory as Brazil and Venezuela. Pan Am has pretended not to notice these nips. But fortnight ago it wheeled, announced that it was setting up affiliated companies in TACA's boneyard -Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, and tiny Costa Rica...
Photographs of a vast "boneyard" of wrecked Nazi planes came out of London last week (see cut), emphasizing that each German shot down is a dead loss to the Luftwaffe, a source of salvage to Britain, whose recovery ratio from her own wrecks alone was placed at one in three. Chipping in to buy replacements for R. A. F. has become the most popular form of war subscription among the British. Women named Dorothy, spurred by Mrs. Dorothy Clarke (wife of an R. A. F. squadron leader), have banded together to buy Spitfires. So did mothers...