Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...altitude records for sea-(38,560 ft. in 1929) and landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
...Having smashed many of the biggest ships of the U.S. and British fleets and landed their forces at will around the southern seas, they toyed between plans to go for India, Australia or Hawaii. It was Doolittle's Tokyo raid, launched in April 1942 from the U.S. carrier Hornet, that clinched the sea lords' new course of conquest. They decided to turn east, to capture Midway Island (1,300 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor) and use this outpost as an advance base for Japanese air patrols. As naval strategists they calculated that the attack would draw...
LOWER HUDSON PRICES will result from Hudson's merger with Nash into American Motors Corp. By doubling up with Nash on purchasing and production, Hudson has been able to cut prices an average $155 on its Wasp line, up to $204 on the more expensive Hornet models...
HUDSON, first out with its new models this week, showed off a longer-looking car and a higher-compressioned (7.5 to 1) engine with dual carburetion which steps the Hornet's power up to 170 h.p., the Wasp...
...frontier of Norwegian parents. Among other peculiarities, he locked his watch to his vest with a large safety pin and he'd up his socks with two pins moored to his pants. His idea of a joke was to return a borrowed sack to a farmer with a hornet's nest inside. Acidly sardonic, he called religion "the fabrication of vendible imponderables in the nth dimension," religious organizations "chain stores," and individual churches "retail outlets." Women apparently could not resist him. nor he, them. "What are you to do if the woman moves in on you?" he once...