Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A.A.F., which had to get planes from the U.S. Navy when it took up dive-bombing, discontinued the dive-bomber type, even washed out a converted fighter which had been equipped with diving brakes to make an excellent single-seater dive-bomber...
...Said the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The company has not delivered a single plane to the Navy under its $15,000,000 contract since the recent strike ended there Aug. 26. Production of dive-bombers and Corsair fighters is 'virtually at a standstill...
...essential to a Monster Benefit they want to stage. Their problem: to pull for the Shore without shipping too much Cantor. They fail, and Mr. Cantor, taking charge, develops such old-fashioned ideas for the show as that of dressing the chorus-girls as boiled potatoes and having them dive into a tank of sour cream...
Guns for Gags. The North Africa-Sicily circuit was toughest of all. Bombed in Algiers, Bizerte, Palermo, Hope once almost dislocated his hip, once got jammed between two targets-an airport and an ammunition dump. In a Palermo hotel, he and Block were writing a script during a dive-bombing. Commented Block: "We did a show and ran for our lives." Cracked Hope: "I've never done anything else...
...good or bad news. Last week, when Italy finally threw in the towel, the market took the good news in traditional style: it went down. But the drop, two-thirds of a point on the Dow-Jones industrial average, was picayune compared to the threeday, 6½-point nose dive that followed the fall of Mussolini last July, and was more than made up in the next day's trading...