Word: boot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operators are doing all they can to prevent such beefs. Last week Panagra started a new all-cargo service between Lima and the Canal Zone, set up a new trans-Andean schedule between Antofagasta and Salta to boot...
...famed "Red Seal" engines were used by 90% of some 600 independent automakers. But the glory was gone. Instead, the company blew its cash on fancy airplanes, a fleet of chauffeured limousines, a fling into the highly competitive, low-priced passenger-car business. In 1939 the big boot of RFC was evident when the old bosses faded out and Reese became president...
Plan for Defense. In the lexicon of Rundstedt's Hohenzollern-made class, there is no such word as "won't." When Adolf Hitler, whom few Junker officers regard with kindness, ordered straight-backed Rundstedt to a secondary area, and a defensive job to boot, no old-line officer could have been surprised that he took the job. Or that he did it well...
...Boeing is one of the three biggest U.S. heavy-bomber makers (the others: Martin and Consolidated), has sidelines in training planes, multi-place gliders and huge Navy flying boats to boot. Its order backlog is near $1 billion (v. only $23,000,000 in 1939); its 40,000 workers hatch warbirds three or four times as fast as a year ago. And, despite near-confiscatory taxes, its profits after taxes this year may top the whopping $6,113,000 earned last year...
...master of Germany, the late Hangman Reinhard Heydrich rushed to see his Führer on a matter of desperate urgency. He tramped through an anteroom to the Führer's bedroom and. with his usual disregard of anything that stood in his way, drove his heavy boot into the body of a man who was lying in front of Adolf Hitler's door to protect him from assassination...