Word: grummans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...
From the north the Jap launched an air armada against Midway. Not a plane was on the ground when he got there. The Marines, in stubby Grumman Wildcats, met him over the shore. With the help of anti-aircraft they knocked down 40 planes in the most concentrated dogfight U.S. airmen had ever seen...
Offense requires power and weapons in quantities which the nation, for all its strength, has not yet got. There will have to be many more incidents such as that which took place in the Battle of Midway, when squadrons of the new Grumman Avengers—swift, long-ranged, deadly—the first batch to come from the factories, went out, fresh from the assembly lines, to finish off the enemy. For in this second phase the U.S. must take the initiative, must drive the invaders back over their bloody roads of conquest...
Navy Planes. In naval aviation, a field where the top Navy men of all nations have been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined...
...their first day of business, in for repair came a flying boat so large that its nose stuck out in the street. A passing motorist crashed into it, immediately threatened suit. Grumman and Swirbul retired to the corner dog wagon, there ate hamburgers moodily, brooding on the unprofitable aspects of a business launched with a legal action. But after the second cup of coffee they decided to stick. The plaintiff dropped his suit when the partners offered to repair his car free. Next step was to saw off the amphibian's tail, repair it, reattach the amputated section...