Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rumors flew thick & fast in Washington last week that Leon Henderson was through as Price Boss. The rumors began when he resigned as Director of Civilian Supply and turned the job over to his deputy, Lawyer Joseph L. Weiner. They multiplied when the Truman Committee blasted his administration of fuel-oil rationing. Henderson's press conference was designed to defend his record and spike the rumors-but it did not quite succeed...
...Luftwaffe had thrown German, Rumanian, Italian and Hungarian planes into the German defense and counterattacks. Air transports flew men and supplies to the relief of the partly encircled German and Rumanian troops at Stalingrad, and (according to the Russians) evacuated several high German officers. The Russians said that they shot down 391 transports in 23 days, 191 in five days last week. They said the Germans had pressed old mail planes and trainers into transport service. These reports indicated not only that the Luftwaffe was taking heavy losses, but that, by hook or crook, it was still able to assemble...
...Riot Starts. A crowd of hooligans swarmed over Stamboul Street. A provocateur jumped on a traffic light, brandishing a club. He shouted, and out of the crowd came 30 men similarly armed. In an Armenian toy shop glass splintered. Bricks and clubs flew through the air, smashed other windows. Out of a radio store phonograph records came sailing high into the night. Jewelry stores, rug stores, department stores were quickly bled of all the goods that could be carried. Looters tore down the street in both directions as they got what they wanted...
...When war broke out Interstate's parts business soared anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer...
Just how savage the Japs could be in their determination was revealed by the bombing and strafing (with newly arrived planes) of field hospitals which were well marked with several 18-foot red crosses. Marked hospitals are not protected by antiaircraft, and the strafers flew so low that survivors said they could see the Japs' faces. Five Americans and 20 Australians, including two doctors, lost their lives. Until the last Jap had been pushed back to the sea, the going would be tough, bloody, merciless...