Word: curtisses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curtiss-Wright in Buffalo is starting day nurseries in connection with its plants...
...American pilots in this Spitfire squadron were brought up on Curtiss P-40s and Bell Airacobra P-39s. They said they preferred the Airacobras to the P-40s, but they found the British Spitfires infinitely preferable in nearly every way to the Airacobras...
...Douglas DC-35, now rolling off California production lines at a record clip. Next will come giant 25-ton Douglas DC-45, able to tote a ten-ton payload non-stop for 2,200 miles. For the rest of the fleet the Army will lend the airlines huge newfangled Curtiss Commando transports and big-bellied Consolidated 6-24 bombers converted into cargo planes...
Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...
Accompanied by a onetime New York World-Telegram reporter, Dorothy Walker, Mrs. Curtiss ranged Iowa in search of the usual. The two Easterners noted that Iowans resent being considered isolationist, that the women apply makeup spottily but have fine complexions, that nearly everyone avoided the word "war" but almost nobody forgot that the war was being fought...