Word: flare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into the hot blue sky over Burma. Below them, on the Jap-held airdrome at Moulmein, 25 or more enemy planes were lined up in tempting rows. The two "Flying Tigers" clawed the field with incendiary bullets, and Jernstedt dropped small fire bombs which he had packed into his flare release. The field was a junk heap of burning, exploding Jap planes when Jernstedt and Reed gunned their P-405 away, over the Salween River...
...Western Hemisphere. In good spirits, they headed west, helped along by an improvised sail made out of a lifeboat cover. On the fourth or fifth day, they sighted a tanker, but the quartermaster, who was senior man in the boat, was afraid to release a flare for fear of attracting a sub. He blinked an S O S with a flashlight, but the tanker did not respond...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...
...figures for his newspaper. Typical case cited by Van Slyck: some 120 small manufacturers got together as the Chicago Defense Association, Inc., lost three months getting their anti-trust clearance, financial status and ability okayed by Washington,.finally got a chance to bid on an $18,000,000 parachute flare order...
...possible flare-up of the issue of Faculty control over undergraduate activities was averted, it was learned today, when the Harvard Dramatic Club decided to abandon their fall production of Christopher Morley's "The Trojan Horse" for two shorter plays...