Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seventh birthday morning last week, Iraq's dark-skinned child King Feisal was told to listen hard to the radio. What he heard sent him tearing to the roof of his Bagdad Palace. There, in a stork's nest on a chimney, he found what the radio message from London had told him about -a model Hurricane fighter, exact down to rubber tires and glass navigation and landing lights, built for His Majesty by R.A.F. mechanics. On the fuselage was a brass plate bearing birthday greetings. On the engine cowling His Majesty's name was inscribed...
Only British and U.S. flyers broke the quiet. R.A.F. bombers from India or Ceylon, raiding the Japs' Port Blair in the Andamans, wrecked a nest of Jap flying boats. From India, Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton sent U.S. Flying Fortresses 750 miles to Rangoon, where they bombed troopships arriving to reinforce the Japs in Burma (see p. 22). Evidently, the Japs did not control all the air all the time...
...there is a wealth of background material. When naval strength was computed in terms of wooden ships and iron men, an unidentified artist in the Mexican war of 1846-47 pictured the battleship of 1952. It was a cathedral-like fortress armed and armored to the crow's nest. His pagodaed vision had a strange prescience in its slanting surfaces, its radical protection for the crew...
...Stumpy, bony-jawed William R. Lowans, ordinary seaman, was in the "pot" (crow's-nest) of a U.S. Navy vessel at twilight one day last week, standing watch on his first trip to sea. Heavy seas frosted his binoculars, rendered them useless. But he kept to the watch. Said he: "I seen this object with my naked eye. It looked like a yaller box, maybe three miles off." The bridge could not see it, pooh-poohed his warning until a ruby-red SOS light appeared. "It" was an orange life raft from a torpedoed ship. Six survivors...
Last week Ray Dumont announced the birth of another brain child: an "eagle's nest" for umpires. Like the crow's nest tried out at a Southern Oregon State Normal basketball game last month, the ballpark nest will be about ten feet above the ground, will give the base umpire a bird's-eye view of the infield. But Dumont's nest will be perched on a movable derrick, which, at the press of a button, will whisk the umpire to crucial spots...