Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Planes need bases. The Catalinas could fly from the Bismarck to Gibraltar, to Iceland, to Britain, and under ideal weather conditions might be refueled at sea; but shorter-range aircraft over the open sea would be helpless but for aircraft carriers. Britain has eight carriers, Germany has perhaps two, Italy has none. However, airfields ashore are "fixed carriers," and they are better than mobile carriers because they are not bound by sea carriers' limitations, and on the continent of Europe the Axis controls most of the fixed carriers...
...reading bad Spelling of any one I know. Betty came, and was surprised, that neither Sir nor Madam could tell what yf was. 'Why,' says she, 'y f spells Wife; what else can it spell?' And, indeed, it is a much better, as well as shorter method of spelling Wife, than by doubleyou, i, ef, e, which in reality spells doubleyifey...
...urgent requirements; however patriotic most of labor might be, defense strikes still tied up production. A FORTUNE poll showed an overwhelming majority of the people in favor of legally forbidding strikes in defense industries (72.2% against jurisdictional strikes, 68.7% against strikes for a closed shop, 66.5% against strikes for shorter hours, 58.4% against strikes for better working conditions), but neither labor nor industry had yet translated such feelings into results...
...load bombers in 1938. Boeing's famous four-engined Flying Fortress had been tested and proved, the company was anxious to go into real production. Louis A. Johnson, then Assistant Secretary of War, and General Malin Craig, then Chief of Staff, decided instead to concentrate on cheaper, lighter, shorter-range bombers and pursuit ships. Their reasons seemed good at the time: limited funds then available would obviously buy more of the cheaper planes; the British had advised against long-range aircraft...
...Though shorter and less dangerous than the famed Maryland Hunt Cup race, the Iroquois (three miles, 18 jumps) turned out to be tough. Galsac, the favorite, bowed a tendon on the next-to-last jump. Another horse broke a leg, was destroyed. Winner was Rockmayne, a bay gelding racing in the colors of Louisville's Barbara Bullitt, cousin of Ambassador William Bullitt. His time: 5 min., 41 2/5 sec. Her prize: $1,000 and a leg on an old silver cup made in 1820 for the Earl of Coventry...