Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
...Fourth Term drive moved into high gear. Top Democrats, in fact, were no longer campaigning for Franklin Roosevelt's renomination but for his reelection...
Something new in blue disembarks at Radcliffe today as a new group of WAVES starts training at the Naval Supply Corps School here. The group, after stowing their gear at Briggs and getting acquainted with their new quarters will immediately enmesh themselves in the mysteries of naval disbursing and supply...
...Beer-bust, through the courtesy of the Juniors, found all being baptized by the saving fluids (what if it was Bock?). Even the birdies outside on the trees flew away at an odd angle. Brogdan and Bennett thought it a beer drinking contest as they showed up in athletic gear. The combined classes split the usually austere atmosphere with well-oiled tonsils. "It must have been quite a time," commented one of Cowie's lovelier dietitians, "to keep the boys away from our wonderful weekly fish supper." (Honest, lady, we love the finny folk...
...seldom been so well recorded. Even the take-off into the mild sunlight has grandeur. As the swift ground shrivels into easy, floating legibility, cinemaddicts feel that sudden magical suction in the midriff which the actual experience brings. Climax of this effect: a magnificent close-up of the landing gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating the sky with vapor trails, and when (over Germany) the flak begins...