Word: featness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this feat, Lockheed's Bob Gross has to share the credit with Jack Frye and Howard Hughes, the thin-faced, lanky flyer, tool maker, brewer, financier and movie maker, who owns the controlling interest in TWA. Six years ago, Hughes and Frye decided that TWA should expand its routes around the world. For this, they needed a new plane. So they drew up specifications for the Constellation, gave Lockheed the job of designing and building...
...Henry Ford. But he stuck and studied, and by 1937 he was recognized as one of the Corps's ablest celestial navigators. This led to his transfer to bombardment and the first B-17s. He navigated a flight 600 miles out to sea-a famous and daring feat in 1937-and came out of the overcast over his objective, the Italian liner...
...inordinately early riser (by the standards of White House reporters), he was at his desk at 8:30, began his day's appointments promptly at 9:30. No matter how crowded the list (one day he had 18 appointments), he kept the schedule running on time, a feat which loquacious Franklin Roosevelt had seldom been able...
...Frazer started his dizzy fiscal feat with the Warren City Tank & Boiler Co., Warren, Ohio (pop. 43,000). The company's $7,000.000 plant was built by the Navy but, under private management, was falling down on the job of making landing barges, etc. So Joe Frazer, fresh from doing a bang-up production job at Willys-Overland Motors Inc., took over...
Then one of the Army's prime morale boosters, Major General Chuon Sakurai, rallied his countrymen. We must follow the example of Frederick the Great, he radiorated. "Regardless of victory or de feat," the Prussian king "always put his hand on his chest. . . . Without uselessly indulging in worry over the prevailing war situation, we also should calmly place our hand upon our chest and think . . . that our efforts are not yet sufficient...