Word: gloster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pockets. His older brother Georges, a doctor in Manhattan, urged Raymond to join him. At 26, still wearing his captain's uniform (the only clothing he had), Loewy sailed for the U.S. with a total capital of $40. Aboard ship, his sketching so impressed Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, then British consul general in New York, that he gave him a note of introduction to Publisher Conde Nast...
...daredevil, not-so-young Britons flew faster last week than men had ever flown before in level flight. At Herne Bay, England, a Gloster Meteor jet plane, piloted by Group Captain H. J. ("Willie") Wilson, 37, of the R.A.F. made four 70-mile runs at an average speed of 606 miles per hour.-In the same type of plane, Eric Greenwood, 38, of the Gloster Aircraft Co. flew nearly as fast. For a while Greenwood thought he had the record. When photographic timing showed him beaten, he was ready with the British sportsman's typical comment: "Really? Good...
Britain's help began to take on clearer form last week. It was clear that Britons had landed at Crete, and some other Greek islands. In London a ?5,000,000 loan to Greece was announced. The R. A. F. was really active. Gloster Gladiator fighters patrolled over Greek cities, and bombers hit at Naples, Brindisi, Taranto and Albanian bases. The first British casualty was announced: an R. A. F. gunner, wounded in the head by what was described as a "stray bullet" from an Italian plane. British naval vessels arrived in Athens from Alexandria, carrying a few troops...
...reasons for Italian confidence was apparent superiority in the air. With a pronounced margin in numbers, the Italians also had at least parity in plane quality, since the British use mostly planes like Gloster Gladiators in Egypt, where dust and sand jam modern retractable landing gear. A third possible reason for Italian optimism was numerical superiority-perhaps four-to-one-in troops. Another was the threat of a diversion against the British rear, from Italian East Africa...