Word: heavier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union of rocket propulsion, aerodynamics and electronics. The rocket principle, in effect giving missiles a second kick after they have been fired from guns or mortars, is also being applied to heavy aircraft (if they can be shot off the ground, they can save gas for longer flights with heavier loads...
...development of U.S. combat aircraft, Emden had made history. There, for the first time U.S. four-motored bombers showed they were capable of something more than their deadly accurate high-altitude bombing. Without stop in production the big fellows had been made more versatile, could carry heavier bombloads at lower altitudes for the area-bombing for which British bombers are famed...
...Freeborn farmers expect to pay for 50-75% of these goods out of current income. City families went in for heavier borrowing...
Somewhat improved over last week's showing against Tufts, the Varsity football team held the heavier and more experienced Brown eleven to three touchdowns in the scrimmage on Soldiers Field Saturday afternoon...
...They know more about Axis military and industrial strength than they do about secretive Russia's. They cannot get the use of Russian air bases for bombing raids like the one on the Ploesti oilfield-which could have been made from Russian soil with a shorter flight and heavier bomb loads...