Word: fishtailed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling French dresses of good ready-to-wear quality and style at moderate prices. Example: at 2,200 francs ($80) Le Louvre last week offered a striking white Cellophane backless evening dress, the front bodice and hips covered with white sequins applied like fishscales and trailing off into a fishtail train...
...down speed and range, the Navy plans to fly the Akron's brood without gear in time of war. When operating on the high seas, both wheels and pontoons would be equally useless in a forced water landing. Unless they can reach a friendly shore and make a fishtail landing, pilots unable to return to Mother Akron will be counted as lost...
...into the thick low wing. Lieut. Quesada picked up the speaking-tube. Try a landing on the hard runway? Climb higher and bail out? Secretary Davison looked overside, then answered: "Neither. . . . Try Mitchel. It's softer there." At Mitchel Field a few miles away Lieut. Quesada made a "fishtail" landing at 70 m.p.h. without hurting his chief or himself...