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Word: icers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead . . . Wind is now north northwest . . . The next stupid Charlie 47 has nothing on his manifest . . . Are you in charge of putting de-icer fluid in aircraft? Well, who the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Siege | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

...simple, practical method of preventing ice formations on plane wings was announced this week by Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. Heat from exhaust gases does the trick. Said Chairman Tom Girdler: "The Catalina long-range patrol bombers have been in production several months equipped with the radically new thermal anti-icer." He gave credit to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics for the original idea and part of its development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wing Anti-Icer | 8/9/1943 | See Source »

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