Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hook above its wing. A friction brake brings it to a stop. To take off, the plane runs beneath the cable until it reaches flying speed-then disengages itself. The Army says that any competent pilot can do the trick. Some prefer the cable to a conventional landing strip...
...system" was designed for light liaison planes. The masts and cables would be hard for an enemy to spot from the air and could be set up quickly in tough terrain. In peacetime, the gadget may well prove useful in mountainous jungles or swampy country where clearing a landing strip is too difficult or too expensive...
...week described its floating airstrip, called "Lily" for short. Made of closely linked hexagonal buoys 6 ft. across and 30 in. deep, it yields a little to the waves, but is rigid enough to support a plane. Recently a 9,000 Ib. plane landed and took off from a strip 520 ft. long and 60 ft. wide...
...Price of Butter. Beneath his old-fashioned journalist's prose, readers could trace the change in U.S. attitude toward Europe-a change from Sunday feature stories (with an undertone of the comic strip) to solid, informed reporting about such brass tacks as the EAM in Greece and the price of butter in Britain...
...readers of Grapes of Wrath who picture Oklahoma as a dusty breeding ground of hungry-eyed migrants, and for playgoers to whom Oklahoma! is a Hammerstein-Rodgers funfair of blond ballerinas and pink-cheeked cowboys, The Cherokee Strip will be an entertaining antidote...