Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ironpants." A longtime friend of Curtis LeMay was once asked whether he had ever seen the General smile. The answer: "I think so, but I can't remember when." LeMay talks in such a low voice that his staff say they have bent ears, none of them can remember hearing him raise his voice. This relaxed calmness was well illustrated one day during an air raid over Germany when a B-17 side gunner shouted over the intercom to Pilot LeMay: "Colonel, my guns won't work...
...mile high, LeMay took the lives of over 3,000 airmen in his hands, not to mention his own career. Not the least courageous phase of his decision was the implied admission that high-level bombing with the missiles then being used was still not so good as low-altitude work. The B-29 had been painstakingly built to work above 25,000 feet...
...last week, before still another turning point came, some 150 square miles of Japan's greatest industrial centers had been burned out. In a four-week period devoted exclusively to low-level missions, the loss of planes dropped well below 1%. Because the gasoline used in climbing was saved, the bomb tonnage per plane rose spectacularly, from 2.8 to 7.5 tons. (For Japan-bound planes refueling at Iwo, it rose to 10 tons.) High-level bombing was not out for good, but low-bombing...
Match into Holocaust. Production costs are pared by filming time-eating outdoor shots with low-paid doubles and stunt men. With transparencies and miniatures, the film is finished in the studio, using a minimum of a well-paid actor's time. The Bills wangle Army & Navy tie-ins : in one picture they used 250 Army planes, in another, a group of Navy divers. Cracked one Hollywoodite : "They strike a match and make it look like a five-alarm fire...
...secret of this "safety fuel" is a blend of added materials which raises the gasoline's flash point, i.e., the point at which it vaporizes and forms an explosively inflammable mixture with air. Ordinary high-octane gas vaporizes to this degree at temperatures as low as 40° F. below zero. The flash point of Standard's new fuel is 105° above zero. Thus at normal temperatures it gives off no inflammable vapors, is safe as kerosene...