Word: float
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...
...hunted U-boats in ancient de Haviland training planes. They felt safer in the daylight, because when they flew home at dusk they could clearly see their eight-cylinder engine becoming red hot. When flown into a wind of more than 50 m.p.h. velocity, the de Haviland "would float sedately backward, its propeller thrashing the air with undiminished enthusiasm." Conveniently, the de Haviland not only landed as gently as "an old hen settling on her eggs," but also floated "like a balloon" on the surface of the water...
...abandon, betting, according to his wife, "on anything." But at Souk-el-Spaatz, he plays less & less. His habitual tension has increased. Recently he wrote to Mrs. Spaatz: "I'm looking forward to the day when we can reoccupy our shack . . . own a boat on the Potomac and float up & down on the tide." The "shack" is the comfortable, 133-year-old home in Alexandria which Tooey bought one week before...
...isolationist opposition ran strong. The House of Morgan offered to float a French loan in 1914-Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan turned the idea down cold. By 1915, as the gold stocks of the Allies ran low, the Administration changed heart: Robert Lansing replaced Bryan, and the Morgan firm floated a $500,000,000 loan for both France and Britain, an act roughly corresponding to the first Lend-Lease aid in this...
United We Float. In this black outlook there is at least one brightening spot. Cooperation between Britain and the U.S. on their most acute mutual problem is now very nearly complete. Integration on U.S. and British anti-submarine commands has improved and an effective joint command is evolving. Both countries have decided: 1) to build as many merchant ships as possible, without trying to concentrate on fast ships only; 2) to build more and better escorts...