Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helicopter can land safely almost anywhere (newsmen at United Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hartford recently saw one put down atop a mountainous snow pile). It can travel faster than a motorcycle, hover or land where no motorcycle could travel (e.g., a wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky...
Planning well ahead for next year, Maritime Commissioner Admiral Emory S. Land last week explained to the House Appropriations Committee the details of his $5 billion budget to finance the streamlined 1944 shipbuilding program. For this sum Shipbuilder Land promised 2,161 new and faster ships...
Passes & Pillboxes. Eisenhower's problem, complicated by the Axis attack, was to break through the Axis rim of defense on to the faster, smoother track of the plain. There were a number of roads through: the Ousseltia Valley, Sened, Faïd Pass. Until Rommel's determined Panzers can be rolled back, Faïd Pass was now effectually closed to the Allies...
...which play a decisive part on the battlefield today. These weapons we and the United States are now, for the first time, in a position to supply. . . . We can give them as much as they are able to take, and we can give them these weapons as fast or faster than Turkish troops can be trained to use them. ... I am sure it would not be profitable to pry more closely into this part of our affairs. Turkey is our ally. Turkey is our friend. We wish to see her territories, rights and interests effectively preserved, and we wish...
...soon as it gets across to the public to cease clearing out the dog pounds in patriotic fervor and to donate some real honest-to-goodness dog flesh, the faster we will be able to come, close to matching the Axis' fifty-odd thousand trained dogs...