Word: gooney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a year before, the first wave of C-47s ("Gooney birds," to U.S. airmen) .had flown a cargo of milk, flour and medicine into Tempelhof. Since then, in 235,314 flights, the airlift had carried 1,943,655.9 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin...
...Japs had eaten all the island's gooney birds, and most of its rats. Everywhere were relics of Major James ("Send us more Japs") Devereux's stand: U.S. ammunition was stacked in neat piles; rusted machinery was everywhere...
...Gooney Lottery...
...anxiously waiting for the Gooney bird eggs to hatch. They are due to break any day now. A lottery was drawn up some time ago, with tickets marked for every minute of every day for about two weeks. When the captain of the base sees the first young Gooney, he will mark down the minute, hour and the day and the one holding the ticket corresponding to this will win the big prize (about...
Farley and his party will arrive in Cambridge at 10:30 o'clock, and will be met in the Yard by Dean Chase, representing President Conant. Thence the group will go to Eliot House, where they will be received by Roger B. Meltiman '96, Gooney Professor of History and Political Science, and Master of the House...