Word: compassable
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Best insurance against materials shortages, Scott knows, are defense contracts. So he went to Washington, got a $25,000 order for compass cases from the British Purchasing Commission. Soon he was also making about $1,000 worth of aluminum castings a week for Army Signal Corps and aircraft companies. Last week he completed his jump from basement to big time. To his company went a $1,010,000 British order for oxygen regulators for fighting planes. Scott will get most of the parts from subcontractors, will hire 50 new workers to assemble them in a new $20,000 plant...
Although the old crate's instrument panel had been stripped clean, the two fliers by devious means got a compass and an altimeter. They rigged up an air speed indicator from the spring of a broken chair. Nazi sentries patrolled a quarter-mile away, but the fliers cycled out night after night to work on the plane. They got automobile gasoline and tried redistilling it themselves...
...bridge in rough and hearty iron-man style. His shout shivered the political timbers of some of his delegates. There was some question about whether he was really navigating-or whether he was acting under sealed orders. In any case, war between Germany and Russia called for a new compass course from Skipper Curran. Thereupon he flung N.M.U.'s helm hard astarboard, neatly following the latest zig in the Communist Party zigzag...
This time the Second used infantry to better advantage, brought quick decision to the exercise, which had the Fifth fighting a delaying action against overwhelming odds. Starting at daylight, the tankers plunged down on the Fifth from all points of the compass, before noon had shattered resistance and captured the Fifth's C.O., Brigadier General Cortlandt Parker...
They were no longer strong enough to row. Little rain fell. Finally, parched, shriveled, black-skinned, they broke the glass of their compass and sipped the distilled water and alcohol. After that they never knew where they were going. They just drifted...