Word: bt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between Basil Street and Braupton Road, a domed and gingerbready six-story edifice with 13½ acres of floor space, Burbidge shrewdly allowed for expansion by letting out the top floors as flats. Of the ten flats that are left, the largest belongs to his grandson Sir Richard Burbidge, Bt., who was born there and grew up to be the present managing director. Several hours a day, Sir Richard leaves his office and patrols his domain, correctly clad in striped trousers and short coat, and wearing a bowler hat to keep from being mistaken for a floorwalker...
...GOVERNMENT TREND TOWARD SCRAPPING THE FOLLOWING TYPES OF AIRCRAFT THAT CANNOT BE SOLD AT PRESENT ESTABLISHED PRICES IS ABSOLUTELY WRONG AND MUST BE STOPPED : c-45s, c-46s, c-47s, c-60s, c-78s, BT-13s, BEECHCRAFT, AT-6s AND ALL TRAINERS...
Dallas. In a News editorial: "Mch hs bn wrttn abt rfrmed spllng as a savr of spc. Possbly ths wld b a gd pln. Bt it wld b a bttr pln if it wer carrd frthr. If a systm of abbrvtns wr adptd, as mch as 40 pct of spc cld b savd. ... It wldn't be so hrd as u mght thnk. U cn read...
Grapevine Discipline. The Army is launching a new safety campaign with posters. Some of the posters point out the differences in the characteristics of different planes. "A P39 [Airacobra fighter] will climb like a homesick angel," reads one. "A bt-13 [Vultee trainer] won't." , Officially unmentioned but part & parcel of the safety campaign is a grapevine disciplinary system. The accident-preventers launch a word-of-mouth report that Pilot Joe Doe pulled a pretty dumb one when he groundlooped that P-4O. Presently the gossip reaches Pilot Joe Doe, who feels terrible...
...strike walked the 3,000 production workers of Vultee Aircraft at Downey, Calif. Work on a whacking backlog of $84,000,000 (including orders for $50,000,000 worth of vitally needed Army training planes) was stopped. Left in the factory hangar were 17 completed BT-13 Army planes. On the assembly line were 20 more that would have been finished by week's end. To Downey rushed War Department, National Defense Commission and Labor Department officials to confer with C. I. O. men and Vultee officials about the union's basic demand: an increase in minimum wages...