Word: dazzler
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unquestionably a dazzler in its test period, P-80 has still to get its final trial-combat with the enemy. German jet planes have appeared in combat over the western front, but not in force and not very effectively, because of short range and other handicaps. For the most part they have been used only for reconnaissance missions and standard U.S. pursuit planes have been able to cope with them. But the Shooting Star will get its chance. Against the failing Luftwaffe, the Air Forces reasons, there is no point in rushing things...
...Edsel Ford. Sorensen is still a director, still vice president in charge of production. Sorensen has had the only production seat on the board. Now he must share that chair with Rausch, close friend of Bennett. After the first board meeting came the first short but significant straw. Razzle-dazzler Steve Hannagan, whose hiring as press agent a year ago was approved by Sorensen, but never by Bennett, was fired forthwith...
...signs of slowing down. Each of his routines has a new and different sparkle. One, performed while tipsy, is a deft parody of jitterbuggery. Another, a 4th of July number done to the accompaniment of torpedoes and firecrackers, is his favorite staccato buck & wing, with some fresh frills. A dazzler for any audience, it was a headache for studio technicians. Astaire could explode his own torpedoes, but the firecrackers had to pop in time with his fidgety feet. Technicians built an organ that would set off the crackers electrically, so that the organist could play the explosions at the right...