Word: licensee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Penobscot to San Pedro the corridors of U. S. public buildings echoed last week-as for four weeks before-with the tread of tentative but determined feet. Faced with the greatest defense crisis in U. S. history, young folks were mobilizing. Their march led to no military camp but...
Not all these newlyweds were counting on the supposition that married men will be exempt from the draft; but everywhere marriage-license records were broken. In Cleveland someone started a rumor and Cupid became cupidity. "Is it true," asked young women in a flood of phone calls, "that a war...
Planes have also improved. The best types are mostly license-built from foreign designs: Heinkel 113 (385 m.p.h.), a heavy Junkers (155 m.p.h. with 2,200-lb bomb-load), the Nakajima I (Boeing-type bomber); and as fighters Devoitine 510 and Nakajima C-98 (352 m.p.h.). Japan has about 1...
At the unveiling of a Wright Brothers monument in Dayton, Ohio, keen-eyed, sparse-haired Orville Wright (who has not piloted a plane since 1914) was presented with Civil Aeronautics Authority's Honorary Pilot's License No. 1.
Thousands of moths whirred dizzily around the floodlights, and the heavy dew of midsummer was in the air when a portable ramp was lifted from the baggage car, fitted to the President's Pullman (the Roald Amundsen) and tested. Then a big Secret Service car (District of Columbia license...