Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though women in The Fatherland are traditionally meek, a few bold spirits publish The German Woman Fighter, regularly print letters in which spinsters, widows, wives and mothers have their say. Last week a letter signed, "A Mother Who Was One of the First Adherents of the Nazi Reich," set parents agog by stating publicly how young girls fare in the camps and classrooms of the Nazi League of German Maidens...
This drilling the Emperor kept up only in Addis Ababa, presumably to impress white observers, for he well knows that his wild legions will fight best in savage skirmish formation under the Ethiopian rule of every fighter for himself...
...crack U.S. test pilots. High on his list was Lee Gehlbach of Great Lakes Aircraft Corp., whom Collins rated "one of the ablest in the field" (TIME, April 1). Few weeks ago able Pilot Gehlbach announced he would take Jimmy Collins' risky place testing a new Navy fighter for Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. at Farmingdale...
Last week he took the single-seater experimental fighter to the Navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. for final acceptance tests. Carefully "beefed up" to withstand the terrific strain of power dives and pullouts, the ship was built to outperform and outfight any combat plane in existence. Gehlbach took it up 12,000 ft., kicked it over into a tight spin. The plane never came...
...ingenuity, the little plane failed to come out of the spin, plunged instead into a net. So impressive was the demonstration, however, that the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics decided to use the tunnel to determine spin characteristics of its new Grumman Fighter, before permitting that risky ship to be flown by any more test pilots (see above...