Word: outstripped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present ratios of aircraft with the Fleets, plane deliveries and increases in pilot personnel will soon outstrip the surface Navy. Admiral Towers knows what to do with the excess planes and pilots: create complete reserve crews and squadrons. Flying boats stay in the air as long as 30 hours, fly 4,000 miles and more on single hops. Back at their bases, refueled and checked, the planes are ready to go again before their tuckered-out crews are rested. Admiral Towers would like to have two and even three crews for each boat. Similarly, he wants to have complete reserve...
Lightbody, winning two events, ran the quarter in 49.2 seconds. His time of 1 minute 58 seconds in the half-mile run to complete the double was good enough to outstrip his rivals by five yards...