Word: compassing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain and Russia hoped the trickle would soon swell to a torrent and wash away their apprehensions. Prime British fear is of a back stab like the Nazi-inspired revolt in Iraq last spring of Rashid Ali El-Gailani. For at almost every compass point from Teheran, the Shah's capital, the Russo-British positions are potentially vulnerable...
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...