Word: fixings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grasshopper school is divided evenly into flying and maintenance. Every pilot must know how to stitch torn wing surfaces, splice struts, fix the carburetor. Grasshopping is tough on tiny planes...
...Aikman could see him quite clearly in the cockpit. He opened his sliding hood and took off his helmet. It appeared to Aikman that he was also releasing his parachute harness. Aikman called through his radio that he was going to climb so that he would be able to fix Finucane's position when he crashed. Paddy replied: "Get as high as possible...
Lock. In Paris, Mo., Mrs. R. O. Bornhouser, whose husband had tried to fix the lock on their car's trunk, drove into a gas station and had the attendant pry it open, releasing Mr. Bornhouser...
...multiple projector for use against tanks. It fires 20 to 30 rocket shells at once. Tanks which cross its pattern of fire are in somewhat the same fix as a rabbit in front of a double-barreled shotgun...
...growing shortage, aggravated the long-standing demands of the Labor Party and other leftist groups for the nationalization* of coal. The Mineworkers' Federation urged that, at the very least, the industry be directed by a national control board (including Government, ownership and labor), empowered, among other things, to fix minimum wages. There was also agitation for coal rationing...