Word: catapultic
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...Catapult Up. While Roy was in the Navy in World War I, he had been sent to Massachusetts Institute of Technology for training in aeronautics. When he was discharged, he was expert enough to get the job of general manager of the Loening Aeronautical Engineering Corp. at $4,200 a year. In 1929, the flurry of plane company mergers made Grumman's job a poor one. Jake Swirbul, who was works manager at Loening, and Bill Schwendler, just getting started as a designer, were in the same boat. The trio decided to start their own company to repair planes...
Cocking the Pistols. The world waited, as for a long-delayed stage entrance, for the Red armies to cross the East Prussian border. The Germans defending their own soil threw into battle armored units brought from Italy and "heavy catapult appliances" (possibly rocket platforms). The iron-muscled and iron-willed young Jewish general, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, had 150,000 men-by German count-massed on the province's eastern border. After an artillery barrage of 3,000 shells in 20 minutes, Chernyakhovsky's infantry closed in along the Kaunas-Konigsberg railroad. General Georgy Zakharov's army group also...
...launched like a big rocket from frames or catapult installations in the Pas-de-Calais area, nearest to England across the Channel. The bomb is driven by a cleverly designed jet propulsion engine built on above its tail (see cut) which sucks in air, mingles it with fuel, explodes the mixture and drives the whole assembly along with a rapid, continuous series of jet thrusts...
...Redheaded Bill Hippie had bad luck. He had boarded his transport and was taking a shower to rid himself of the putrid smell of the dead, when the ship unexpectedly pulled out. He finally got a message to Rear Admiral Howard Kingman, a battleship division commander, who sent a catapult plane. It took Hippie's stories, a day late, back to Tarawa, whence they were planed to Pearl Harbor for radioing...
...adventurous minds-his and the President's. Only three weeks before, Henry Kaiser had laid on the White House desk the plans for wholesale merchantman-into-carrier conversion. Many an old-fashioned Navy man frowned: slow, small carriers (flight deck: 514 ft.) tote few planes, often must catapult them when there is no strong wind to help. And the pros felt no certainty that the small flat tops, even in droves, would be the answer to the U-boat...