Word: dayton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inventors, H. Erwin Hale and Irving Doyle, began work on the sight in 1938. With military secrecy lifted, Hale told the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences in Dayton that the sight, known as K8, has been found three or four times as accurate as mechanical sights. K-8 is not the first electrical sight: the British have a similar one, called Mark II, and a third, developed by General Electric, is in use in U.S. Superfortresses (the Germans are believed to have no comparable sight...
Roll Call. In Philadelphia, James D. Six, one of the six Six boys in the armed forces, came home on furlough. In Dayton, newly recruited to the WACs, was Mrs. Pearl Harbour. In California, James Bottoms applied for transfer from the airborne Engineers to the Submarine Corps...
First & Only. Plump, greying Anne McCormick, born in England, reared in Dayton, Ohio, began acquiring European background on trips abroad with her husband, Francis J. McCormick, a Dayton importer. In 1921 she became a free-lance contributor to the Times, soon landed a fulltime, roving job. She was one of the first reporters to spot Mussolini as a coming leader of Italy...
...Freshman who is destined to get places in the Harvard athletic world, is Sid Correll, from Dayton, Ohio, whose resemblance to Gil Dodds is remarkable Sid runs the mile, wears glasses and hopes to enter his father's profession after majoring in theology at college...
...been running the mile for two years, and last spring got down to 4:38 finishing eighth in a blanket finish at the Ohio State Championships. Previous in this affair he had blazed home to win the Dayton city-wide meet in 4:40, after fighting off half a dozen other 4:48 milers...