Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japs have a new fighter, more formidable than the Zeros.* Maine's Senator Ralph 0. Brewster (see p. 13) declared last week that the ratio of U.S. air victories has begun to drop, that Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force flyers in China were so surprised by their first brush with Japan's new fighter that they lost five out of seven bombers...
...Britain was not going to drop out of the air war. The big planes based there were going to join a vastly intensified air offensive from the south and the west, bringing to Germany a hell of bombing worse than any it had known...
...possible in a single day for an accumulation of dignity to reenter the soul through the tiny hole through which it went out drop by drop for 20 years. The fact is that after the last war we were so unworthy of liberty that we deserved the dictatorship. . . . Liberty must be deserved...
...most potent air weapon. Its contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
Henry Ford kept his shrewd mouth shut clam-tight about the changes. But many a motor-wise man made good guesses. Most likely: when auto production is resumed, Ford will drop its Zephyr and Lincoln-Continental lines; will turn its designing job over to outsiders again; will concentrate on turning out frill-free cars cheaper and faster than anyone else. In effect, the Lizzie would again become a kind of family jeep...