Word: flyspeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offset its staleness, Territory has several passages of refreshing cinematic excitement. The train robbery has a pleasant flavor of old-style westerns. For admirers of the great outdoors, the shots of McCrea's flyspeck flight across a stupendous cliff face are alone worth the price of admission...
Permanent Possession. In the Pacific, complexities were almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...carriers of Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet, after weeks of rampaging up & down the coast of Asia and its guardian islands, had no new action to report. The spotlight of fleet activity was on flyspeck Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima), mid way between Guam and Tokyo, where the enemy persisted in repairing bomb-pocked airstrips in order to fly off planes against the B-29 base at Saipan. For an hour and a half, a 16-inch-gun battleship, heavy cruisers and destroyers poured shells into the 2½-by-5-mile island's airfields, gun emplacements...
After so many evil tidings, the news looked a little better. Germany's Rommel had chased the broken, retreating British 325 miles in eleven days, had rammed his armored spearheads down the coastal desert from Matrûh, taking the flyspeck towns on the railroad to Alexandria like peas ripped from a pod. Now for four days Rommel had not advanced...
...Future. Whatever the airplane does to speed the U.S. war program now is only a flyspeck on the future. Last week aggressive, farsighted Glenn L. Martin, who 29 years ago helped the Army with its first bombardment experiment, and who has specialized in making giant multiengined airplanes ever since, told engineers in Detroit: "My company already has plans for a 250,000-pound commercial air vessel. . . . Our studies show that no technical considerations limit the size of airplanes. . . . We should be able to build 500,000-lb. airplanes in a very few years...