Word: dive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speed of the dive increased, the machometer needle crept up to Mach 1, the speed of sound. Then it went on up to Mach 1.1. The controls felt heavy, but nothing really unpleasant happened. Derry checked the speed and leveled off. He had traveled faster than sound in an engine-driven plane (the DH-108 is no rocket-ship like the U.S. Bell S-1), and was none the worse. His top speed was probably just under 700 m.p.h...
Juniata McMichen, 19, of Atlanta, tried a variation of the scare technique. She took an hour-long ride in a stunting airplane, including a dive from 10,000 feet. It was her first plane ride and she was "almost scared to death." But it did no good; she climbed out hiccuping six a minute. Doctors finally cured her by crushing a phrenic nerve...
...Dive Down. Other pilots have outstripped sound in other ways. North American Aviation Inc. stated flatly last week that its jet fighter XF-86 has often exceeded the speed of sound in power dives. A later, more powerful model, the F-86A, may be able to do the same in level flight...
Some movie box offices had taken a "nose dive," Variety reported, and there was at least one reason for it: "film shoppers were cagey...
...comfortable place. It neither welcomes pilgrims on arrival, nor says goodbye when they leave. It is seldom impressed with their triumphs and does not mourn if they choose to dive out a window. There is no lonelier sight in the world than a dead man lying on a Manhattan sidewalk, ringed by a throng of the half-curious...