Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just a literary exercise published in the school magazine of Manhattan's private Buckley School (for boys). But into his contribution, nine-year-old Kenneth Auchincloss put some of the long, long thoughts of youth. Wrote...
Fifth Air Force technicians who found the A26 (one of the only two built) on an airdrome near Tokyo are inclined to believe the claim. Notable feature: fuel tanks cover 75% of the A-26's wing span, carry nine tons (3,219 gallons) of gasoline, accounting for some 54% of the plane's gross weight...
...Antonio's tortilla-flat Alamo Field last week, 50 men in coveralls scurried over, under, into, out of and around nine fat-bodied Curtiss Commando planes. They installed refrigeration equipment in some, heaters in others. On the silver sides of all nine, they painted the royal blue insignia of a brand-new air-freight enterprise: Slick Airways...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...
...Kidnapped in 1933, Urschel was held for nine days on a Texas farm till $200,000 was paid for his release. By remembering the precise time a transport plane passed over the farm daily, he was able to locate the farm, help the FBI trap the kidnappers. *A term used by Texans, notorious braggarts about Texas, to describe their opinion of their state. Those who have "demonstrated ability" in such bragging will be feted by Texas Citrus & Vegetable Growers Association in Washington at the first Texas Brag dinner...