Word: guess
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Horsepower? Where design will go next is anybody's guess. Because the engine design comes first, the plane next, this year's engine must go into next year's plane. Thus this year's 2,000-h.p. radials will not power Republic and Vought-Sikorsky airplanes in production quantities until 1942. And for 1941, British and U.S. pilots flying the latest U.S.-made fighter planes will shove the throttle on last year's engines-power plants ranging from 1,000 to 1,350 horsepower...
That request of George Marshall's drew no fire from legislators, for regulars swing no political cats. But his other requests produced plenty of fireworks from such lawmakers as Burton Wheeler, Hiram Johnson, Charles McNary. Best guess at week's end was that Congress would wait to hear what the public and Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...
...sense, I guess we didn't know what we were doing when we built our first plane," said Orville Wright. "We never envisaged the plane as a terrible engine of war. But there will always be someone who will abuse anything...
Gano Dunn's report did not even hazard a guess at steel needs for 1943 or later. It took the view that Britain (which had to suspend imports of finished steel for two months this spring for lack of ships) would continue to need only 381,000 tons per month from the U.S. It made no mention of another basic argument for greatly increased capacity: the progressive deterioration of older, overstrained mills...