Word: pullout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marshall Field's rival Chicago Sun went tabloid this week, dropped its price a cent, and found a neat answer to a perennial breakfast table question: Who gets the paper? The Sun sports and financial sections were contained in a "pullout," which husbands could take to the office, leaving the rest unmussed for the missus. For suggesting the idea, Sports Editor Dick Hackenberg got a $600 bonus...
...better job as a correspondent if he participated in the attack. ... We allowed him to participate in a dive-bombing attack against Wake. The pilot took him down through the antiaircraft fire in an almost vertical dive of many thousands of feet with a release and final pullout at under 1,000 ft., which didn't seem to faze Bob Sherrod in the least...
...into his dive. Riding a bellowing beast that can step up to 435 m.p.h. in a vertical dive if it gets its head, he has diving brakes (strips that can be extended perpendicular to the wing) to keep his speed down around 250 for accurate bombing and a comfortable pullout...