Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane in combat. (If this success is owing to pilot excellence rather than plane capabilities, that is a good argument for not sending U.S. pilots out in flying coffins like the Jap Zeros. If U.S. planes were stripped of armor, puncture-proof tanks and parachutes to make them lighter-hence more maneuverable, and able to fight at higher altitudes-pilot loss, like the Japs', would be terrific...
...Army is now training two squadrons of huge, long-distance hospital planes. These planes will be assisted by another squadron of lighter air ambulances which will whisk wounded soldiers away from points close to the front lines to points where they can be shifted to the larger planes. Purpose: to assure U.S. soldiers of treatment at a fully equipped hospital during the precious first hours after severe injury, when chances for recovery are doubled or tripled...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
Productions may soon have to be less fancy-priorities constitute one threat, transportation another. Lavish musicals, such as used to travel in several baggage cars, will either have to go lighter on trousseaux or give up tours and tryouts...
...Louis factory last week announced a new process for making certain airplane parts of paper. In the McDonnell Aircraft Corp., layers of paper are bound together with plastic, formed into wing tips, rudders, etc. Company officials boasted that an experimentally produced wing tip was stronger and lighter than one made of aluminum...