Word: hooke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of destroying the Army Air Forces in the most critical period of its history." The Navy was equally concerned that morale in the fleet air arm would be shattered. Top-brass airmen frankly regarded flight pay as "one of the best pieces of bait we have on the hook for young flyers...
Died. Lieut. General Alexander Mc-Carrell ("Sandy") Patch, 55, defender of Guadalcanal, veteran tactician whose monument was his U.S. Seventh Army's "left hook" from the Riviera north around the Alps, south into Austria; of pneumonia; in San Antonio. A disciplinarian with "a temper like the devil before dawn," Sandy Patch also had deadpan wit and a soldier's knowledge of Kipling. A month before he died, he got the top job of his soldiering lifetime: architect-in-chief -of the postwar U.S. Army...
Invented by Captain James H. Brodie, the simple rig has four masts which support a long cable stretched between them. To land, the plane flies between the masts and snags a nylon loop with a hook above its wing. A friction brake brings it to a stop. To take off, the plane runs beneath the cable until it reaches flying speed-then disengages itself. The Army says that any competent pilot can do the trick. Some prefer the cable to a conventional landing strip...
...modified the recommendations: the union said the Board's ruling would mean take-home pay of only $28 to $32.50. As is often the case when WLB decisions go against a union, the impatient elevator operators decided to go out and get more on their own hook...
Tomato Surprise. In Newark, an alarmed inmate of the Ivy Hills Alms House summoned four fire engines, a res cue squad, and two hook-&-ladder trucks to a sunny field blazing with ripe, red tomatoes...