Word: kingsley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited his Cabinet to get up and march around the room while he stood one chair in the corner. When they sat down again, six had new chairs, there were two new players, and one was out of the game. In new chairs were: > Dapper, round-bellied Sir Kingsley ("Cherub") Wood, 58, who as Air Secretary had been more & more criticized for letting Britain continue to lag behind Germany in production of planes and training of pilots. Both press and House of Commons have been down on him for his secrecy about R. A. F. exploits. Into the very small...
...Down in the big chair Sir Kingsley had vacated sat lean old Sir Samuel Hoare, who had been Air Secretary twice before (1922-24, 1924-29). Although British experts think planes can be produced much faster than "Cherub" Wood produced them, few thought last week that Sir Samuel, most famed as the co-planner of the abortive Hoare-Laval Ethiopian deal, was the man to produce them...
Last week, while the R.A.F.'s flying cavalry patrols were ranging as far east as Poland on night reconnaissance flights, Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood went to the House of Commons for approval of an "unprecedented" budget estimate for the Air Ministry, promptly got what he asked for by way of a ?100 token appropriation...
According to the Washington reckoning Germany is turning out 2,300 planes a month - 43% more than the combined out put of France and Britain. Britain, despite stories of increased production, despite the fighting talk of Sir Kingsley Wood, fell from a rate of 1,200 a month in December to 800 in January, may be presumed to have recovered to the 1,200 rate...
...development of high-performance pursuit types, Sir Kingsley could, and did, justifiably take pride - a pride which he showed last week in the somewhat extravagant statement that he would pit a hun dred Spitfires or Hurricanes against a much larger number of German counterparts, which would mean Messerschmitt Me. 109s, or Heinkel He. 1125. For Hurricanes and Spitfires have been vastly improved in performance (principally by replacement of antiquated wooden propellers by American-type, constant-speed metal props). And the Spitfire, traditionally nimble in dogfight, has been stepped up to close to 400 miles an hour in top speed...