Word: duckings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...third member and probable chairman of the board, which will have the big. ticklish job of disposing of some $75 billion in surplus materials, is expected to be Iowa's lame-duck Senator, Guy M. Gillette. (He cannot be appointed till his present term expires.) The Senate will probably approve him. But it would be no sinecure-already the Board has stirred up one bitter fight which caused the President to drop his first choice for chairman, Defense Plant Corp. President Sam H. Husbands (TIME...
Half the members of the Dies Committee were lame ducks-Martin Dies had decided not to run, and three more were picked off by the voters. Last week the whole Committee became a dead duck. House leaders of both parties agreed that the Committee-which could find a Communist under almost any bed-should not be revived when its lease of life runs out on Jan. 3. Some U.S. citizens were delighted at the news; few shed tears...
General Douglas MacArthur prefers to watch, not duck, when enemy planes attack. It was so at Corregidor; it was so last week at Leyte. A .50-caliber bullet from a Jap strafing plane pierced the wall of his command post building, passed within a foot of his head...
...that birds are sometimes forced down by snowstorms, but thinks confusion and fright have as much to do with it as anything. Nonetheless, airmen's reports have greatly extended ornithology. Airmen, for example, have found old notions about the speed of birds much exaggerated: the top speed of ducks seems to be about 55 m.p.h.; of the fastest known birds, swifts and duck hawks, not more than 150 to 200 m.p.h...
...airmen have located the areas of greatest danger from flying birds. The migrations follow fixed routes; the heaviest traffic is up & down the Mississippi-Missouri Valley. Duck strikes are most frequent, but flyers do not fear them as much as certain heavier birds. A 15-lb. goose, flying at 50 m.p.h., colliding head on with a 200-m.p.h. plane, can do formidable damage...