Word: fracases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Result is that Packard has met every WPB quota. Despite higher & higher goals, aircraft-engine production was 17% above quota in May, 14% above in June and 13% above in July. Marine-engine output shows smaller gains. And since the plan started, there have been no strikes, no slowdowns, not...
What may some day be the biggest and roughest fight in U.S. industry last week flared into the open. The battlers: the rich, powerful automobile manufacturers, epitome of U.S. industrial might, v. the fast-growing aircraft makers, symbolic of U.S. designing and technical agility. The fracas has been stewing ever...
In a recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them...
A fast-moving first line, centered by Tommy Ayres, brother of three-letterman Burgy Ayres, has been a leading factor in the Yardling streak. Flanking Ayres, Stan Collinson and Jim Apthorp on the wings have developed into a hardworking duet which looks better with every fracas.
Handicapped by the illness of their best man, Billy Harding, the Nobles fell before the Crimson onslaught with little resistance, and Coach Hodder spent the last part of the fracas experimenting with new lines, some of which he intends to keep.