Word: monsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will be a monster football rally on Friday afternoon with speeches, the band, cheers, flares, and all the rest of the trimmings...
Most storied aircraft in the U. S. Army Air Corps today is the Flying Fortress, a monster, four-motored Boeing bomber. Since the first B-17 was delivered to the Air Corps in 1937, the Flying Fortresses have served the Army with the plodding but spectacular fidelity of a string of prize Percherons. Manned by veteran pilots, B-17s have made countless jumps to the Canal Zone and South America, have ranged far out to sea, made long, heavily loaded hops. None has crashed...
That was Dallas' cue. If Fort Worth wouldn't be hospitable, Dallas would. This week Dallas businessmen and civic leaders arranged a monster ceremony to greet F. W. & D. C.'s new Zephyr. Their guests of honor: Fort Worth's Rejects Kettering, Budd, Budd...
...date set by Adolf Hitler for the completion of his conquest of Great Britain. Last week, as that date approached, Britain's Over-Seas League planned a monster Aug. 15 tea party in London for His Majesty's forces from overseas. Before the week was out Britons were certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch...
Sweltering hot though it is, with its beetling, sun-scorched Rock radiating heat all day, Gibraltar became hotter still last week. Italian bombers from bases 1,000 miles away repeatedly dropped monster explosions upon it. British warships in the anchorage on the Rock's west side were prime targets, the sea power that keeps Italy corked into the Mediterranean. The Italians claimed they hit and fired some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft...