Word: catapulted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Countered, last week, one Charles M. Manly, pilot of the plane in Langley's experiments: "Launch the Langley machine from its original catapult and let it write its own label. . . . Test it in its original condition of 1903 and invite the world to hear it speak...
...lost one of its most devoted exponents and the Navy a capable officer, often termed the father of Naval aviation. Captain Mustin was largely responsible for the establishment of the Bureau of Aeronautics and the shaping of the Navy's air policy in recent years. Inventor of the catapult idea of launching airplanes from shipboard, he was also the first pilot to be launched in this manner. As first Commander of the Aircraft Squadrons of the Fleet, he perfected means of spotting gunfire by airplane. Together with Admiral Bradley Fiske, he perfected the telescopic gunsight now used throughout...
...Ford fortune is perhaps the cleanest ever made. That fact gives a titanic leverage to his anti-capitalist catapult. "If there are any who would like to see Mr. Ford lose out, they are not in the ranks of Labor." As a plain matter of fact that cannot be said, for example, of Labor's attitude toward Judge Gary...