Word: flaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...past year Childs Co., after more than 50 years of peddling sanitary flap jacks, "unsurpassed" coffee and (more recently) the 60? soup-to-nuts special, has been teetering on the verge of bankruptcy...
...only the high-altitude plane it was designed to be. Its long range enables it to escort bombers on round trips well over 1,000 miles. Its heavy, concentrated fire power (guns from the nose instead of the wings) is valuable for strafing airfields or supply columns. A "maneuvering flap" and engines which rotate in opposite directions make it more maneuverable than other equally heavy planes...
Third in the series that began with Road to Singapore, this elaborate essay in slapstick is dedicated to the propositions that frenzy is fun and that even a cold-storage turkey can fly if its torso is Lamour, and if Hope and Crosby flap its wings. Neither proposition quite proves...
...asset: its lovely Ozark vacation country; duckhunting that lured wealthy sportsmen from all over the Midwest; modern cities; high schools and colleges whose enrollment doubled between 1930 and 1940; native sons like General Brehon Somervell, General Douglas MacArthur; heroes like lawyer-author-soldier Albert Pike. Now Arkansas began to flap its wings and tell the world...
...Bataan Hospital lie U.S. and Filipino soldiers, women, children, Japanese prisoners. Nurses sleep under trees, near fox holes, wash their own overalls, bathe in streams. Food is cooked on two old-fashioned wood stoves. All equipment is sterilized, but the thick Bataan dust is everywhere, and assistants must constantly flap fly swatters...