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Word: boomerangers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the next step is brainy, energetic John Knudsen Northrop. He thinks the tail ought to come off: he believes that conventional airplanes will eventually be replaced by tailless flying wings. This week in Hawthorne, Calif. Jack Northrop proudly showed his Flying Wing bomber, which looked like a giant boomerang, 172 feet from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Flying Wing | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Broom & Boomerang. Neatly making use of some indiscreet remarks by the Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, Lawyer Merritt took another tack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Management Walks Out | 1/7/1946 | See Source »

...Harry's Arcade Spa, whose floors have felt the tread of Roosevelts and Rockefellers, pinball was termed "good clean fun," "necessary for morale," "harmless amusement."' "If the game is banned," said one habitue, "you will get a vicious ring of backroom machines and gambling. The ban will probably boomerang." Regardless of the outcome of the ban, Arcade Spa, which thrives on pinball revenue, will be hard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'KEEP CAMBRIDGE CLEAN' DRIVE TILTS CITY'S PINBALL MACHINES | 3/30/1945 | See Source »

Vale [Jan. 29] as ''a possibly dangerous trend toward anti-Catholicism." Your religion editor suggests that "intolerance is a boomerang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 19, 1945 | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

...Boomerang. Paulus is the member who probably means most to Germans. In 1942 and early 1943, Goebbels plugged him as a staunch Nazi, the victor of Rostov, a man who outranked Heinz Guderian as a tank genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Stalin's Germans | 2/12/1945 | See Source »

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