Word: tomahawk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Henry was reported well equipped with planes, tanks, Bren gun-carriers and artillery, all having heavy fire power. He also commanded an unknown quantity of material: the Australians used Tomahawk fighters (Curtiss P-40s) to drive the Ju. 88s away at Sidon...
...Lockheed's two-engined pursuit ("Lightning" to British pilots) does 404 m.p.h. at 16,000 feet, carries a 37-mm. cannon and four .50-calibre machine guns, has a range of 500 miles at cruising speed (350 m.p.h.). > The Curtiss pursuit (Anglice: "Tomahawk") carries two .50-calibre, four .30-calibre machine guns, has a service ceiling of 30,000 feet, top speed of 350. ¶ North American's NA-73 (Anglice: "Mustang")-very hush-hush in the U. S. and barely mentionable in the press-has a top of 398, carries six guns. ¶ Army...
...tomahawk-faced Brothers Gerard (General Electric), Herbert Bayard (mind-about-town) Swope...
...Sharpest tomahawk to be flipped in Mr. Ickes' direction came from Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler, who devoted three columns to Mr. Ickes and what Pegler called the "Social-Democratic party." Quick to claim his scalp, Columnist Pegler whooped : "In this world every guy has a sign on at least one other guy, and Harold Ickes is my guy." The Pegler war dance: ". . . Mr. Ickes is so cheap that when he gets sick or wants a rest he muscles into the Naval Hospital. . . . When he pulled that crack . . . about how Willkie made his money . . . I wanted...