Word: breeches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...45th birthday last week, zestful, movie-handsome Ernest Robert Breech got the grandest birthday present of his life: the presidency of crucial Bendix Aviation Corp., a 19%-controlled General Motors affiliate. To take the job, Breech quit as G.M. vice president in charge of household appliances and aviation. At Bendix, Founder Vincent Bendix, 60, moved upstairs to board chairman...
According to Ernest R. Breech, who is Board Chairman of North American Aviation, Inc., we will need a standing airforce of about 24,000 military planes after the next armistice is signed,-and that means even if the U. S. takes an important role in policing the world. If you allow for a replacement demand of 6,000 planes a year, this will still only give employment to about 100,000 men- or less than 20 per cent of the number that will be working in aircraft production by 1944. That leaves a fat remainder of 400,000 or more...
...great advantage of brass casings is that, at detonation, they quickly heat up, expand, seal the gun breech; then they quickly cool, shrink, can easily be ejected. Steel has a slower heat conductivity, a lesser coefficient of expansion, which can probably be somewhat overcome by crafty alloying...
...China National Aviation Corp. has never carried breech blocks for Chungking anti-aircraft guns, or any other cargo which would jeopardize its position as a purely commercial line. This position has the complete support of the Chinese Government...
...there was the usual routine for Walter Sorensen: cleaning the breech-blocks and oiling the six 3-inch A.A.s, checking the trip-mechanisms for the ash cans (depth charges all set because the waters up around Iceland were, as the boys said, "stiff with subs"). It was hard work. The whole crew had been ordered onto Condition Baker-watch and watch, four hours on and four...