Word: floorboards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There were land mines and booby traps. Most of the booby traps were crude, such as a floorboard obviously raised to accommodate a detonator, and not at all up to the fictional standard of Japanese cunning. However, a few men were killed...
...test, a still better one is taking shape on the drawing boards. But to foreign purchasers of U. S.-made military planes this principle of initial obsolescence has long been complicated by a Federal regulation that made their buys relatively more out-of-date than a motorcar with a floorboard gearshift is in 1940. The rule: no aircraft type could be sold for export until it had been in U. S. Army or Navy service for one year...