Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first glimpse of the Rockies, steel-blue and airy, made it inevitable that there would always be a U. S. market for pack saddles; and the first glimpse of the Yellowstone or the Shoshone bounding down the endless rapids insured the making of canoes. The Pursuit of Happiness that surges through American history as deeply as the protection of life and liberty, that remained alive even through the heartbreaking days of the Civil War, remained alive through ten years of depression. It was in the millions of citizens who peacefully pottered around making things in basements and backyards, the tinkerers...
...against the forces of destruction. And off in the same future lay the challenge of great ideas to change the mood of the people, to determine where if anywhere, lie the horizons that mark the furthest Azores of the mind and set at last the final limits ending the Pursuit of Happiness...
...French accounts agreed with Polish, that most German pilots captured were youths of 19, 20, 21. The seasoned Nazi Condor squadron of Spanish Civil War fame was reported to have reached the Western Front from Poland. French pilots claimed to have proved that their U. S.-built Curtiss pursuit ships will outfly the Nazis' much-touted Messerschmidts...
...poster outside an enlistment office in Newark, N. J. had to be taken down last week. Reason: It was too effective. Its screaming eagle and covey of zooming pursuit planes made every recruit want to join the Air Corps. To lean, soft-spoken Major Thomas B. Woodburn, this was cause for quiet satisfaction. With the U. S. Army upped to 227,000 men by Presidential proclamation, it is Tom Woodburn's job to boom recruiting. He paints posters to that end, rejoiced to hear that his latest was so attractive...
...above the bombers, trying to keep the sun at their backs, will be the pursuits, single-seaters in battle formation. Their job: to protect bombardment in its egg-laying. When the enemy pursuit rises to knock the bombers out of the air, hurtling through the bursts of its own anti-aircraft fire, when it locks horns with the protecting pursuit in swirling mass dogfight, military textbooks can be thrown away. For when the day's bloody work is over, the military schools will have fact for the next fight, instead of theory...