Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this boom in machine tools, the U. S. aircraft industry, with a backlog of $750,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 more in sight in Allied orders, was chiefly responsible. But many other domestic orders were keeping toolmen on the hop. The automobile industry, which spent handsomely for 1940-model tooling, is already handing out fat orders for 1941 models. Army and Navy have been buying heavily and secretly for their industrial mobilization plans. Topping all is an expanding export trade for aircraft plants and arsenals in Europe, particularly France, Great Britain and Sweden. In normal times exports take...
...week's end announced that their transatlantic Clippers would not stop at Bermuda on eastbound trips after March 15. "With the improved weather service," the airline carefully explained, "the intermediate stop at Bermuda . . .will no longer be required." Clippers will fly to the Portuguese-owned Azores in one hop. Pan American's shuttle service between New York and Bermuda by smaller seaplanes will go on as usual...
...last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head of the Pacific division knew everything that was going on between San Francisco and Hong Kong. But only Trippe knew what...