Word: pickup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparation for bitter struggles to come between Companies I and II, a pickup team of Midshipmen beat the pants off an ROTC softball outfit last Saturday afternoon. Well the score was 2-1, anyhow...
...hunch is your Art editor slipped that one in apurpose to catch the pickup...
Variety called them the Lady (Kay Francis), the Sweater Girl (Carole Landis), the Hoofer (Mitzi Mayfair) and the Hoyden (Martha Raye). They got together last fall as a pickup team, only slightly acquainted with each other, for a tour of fighting fronts. Last week their "captain," Miss Francis, was home with the liveliest trouper's tale of the war. The four actresses had traveled 37,500 miles, had left the memory of their perfume in camps on three continents, won the praise of General Dwight Eisenhower and established themselves as sweethearts of the A.E.F...
Like troop parachuting and dive-bombing-ingeniously adapted to the Nazi war of movement-the glider pickup was distinctly a U.S. development, an outgrowth of a mail pickup service which has been pure routine for three years on the routes of a Wilmington company, All American Aviation...
...secret of the pickup's success is a reel which relieves the plane and glider of sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...