Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaking with fury, Hopkinson, who is known for his fine war record and constant advocation of a large air force, turned to the Speaker: "I ask your protection, Mr. Speaker, against this gross and lying innuendo...
...condemned for slaughter because of a fodder shortage. Supplies from Denmark and Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived from Holland every day but most of these were sent into the Ruhr industrial district to provide additional vitamins for nerve-racked workers harassed nightly by British raiders. Bibulous Berliners, nourishing a long thirst...
...sight on the target he may well find (and usually does) that the pilot is not flying straight toward the target. On the pilot's board an instrument signals that he is right or left of the sighting line. Providing he holds the true line and keeps constant altitude the rest is up to the bombardier. Down the groove flies the Heinkel with its belly bomb-bay doors open. As it gets into range, the bombardier presses the bomb-release button. If he has set his selector for one bomb, only one falls toward the target...
...Constant vigilance by Army and Navy is the only weapon against sabotage or the surprise raid. And if any enemy were not marvelously successful in his first attempt he might well fail for good. But operating from bases in the Caribbean he could go about his business much more methodically. The only effective defense is to keep him at a distance. Hence the second paradox of defense. The best way to defend the Canal is to defend seas 1,000 to 2,000 miles beyond the Canal...
...mission to go into the U. S. transatlantic air trade, hitherto the monopoly of vast, pioneering Pan American Airways. For more than a year the upstart air line (TIME, April 29) had lazed along, thinking up tasks for its skeleton staff: daily weather maps for its meteorologists to chart, constant checking and rechecking of its only plane - a Consolidated 28, which had already made some experimental hops to Europe. Now it could stop the make-believe...