Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tall, skinny, young Earle M. Scott is a handy man with blueprints and tools. In 1932, a foreman in Lancaster (N.Y.) Malleables & Steel Corp., he set up shop in his basement, started a spare-time business manufacturing tail-wheel assemblies for light airplanes. Last year business...
...been decided that the college dress shall remain unaltered except that any kind of grey trousers may be worn with tails or jackets. In addition, new boys may continue to wear at Eton the overcoat, shoes, grey flannel trousers, football boots and fives clothes which they already possess. The Eton tailors have a large quantity of second-hand tail coats, jackets, waistcoats and trousers which can be purchased without [ration] coupons at small cost. The use of these will help to conserve existing supplies of cloth and clothes...
...Hitler, with his tattered lackey, Mussolini, at his tail and Admiral Darlan frisking by his side, pretends to build out of hatred, appetite and racial assertion a new order for Europe. Never did so mocking a fantasy obsess the mind of mortal...
...clock Summer Time, the very end of the long northern twilight when he circled the grounds of Dungavel. He zoomed his plane a few thousand feet, then bailed out. Bullet holes were found in the tail of his wrecked plane later...
Then, suddenly and surprisingly, they turned tanks and tail, and hurried back...