Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twin-motored 6-25s were flown just over the housetops. It would have been no trick to hit Hirohito's palace, but Doolittle had given specific instructions: don't bomb it. "I think several of us dropped bombs within sight of it." The Doolittle plane was attacked by nine Jap fighters, but he rapidly outdistanced them all. Not an American plane was lost (the Japs claimed nine) and the 79 volunteers, along with Doolittle, were all nominated for the Distinguished Service Cross. Still undisclosed was the American planes's base. Unhumorously reporting a heavy Roosevelt jest...
...week ago Waldstein was not even in the leading 10 batters, but his five hits for nine in the Cornell twin bill vaulted him into a 30-point lead over Princeton's Captain Bill MacCoy. Playing the outfield when not hurling, Waldstein has participated in six of the Crimson's seven games...
...strength was on the Western Front. Said a well-informed R.A.F.man last week: "The number of fighters against us on the Western Front today is more than it was two or three months ago. We still retain against ourselves and Malta a greater number of fighters-both single and twin-engined-than are distributed on the whole Russian Front...
...Johnny (whose Around the World in Eleven Years was a best-seller in 1936), turned up in Portland, Ore. last week as that city's first full-time radio newscaster. Now 59, tiny, egg-bald Abbe began a two-a-day stint for the Oregonian's twin stations KGW and KEX. Said he: "All my life editors told me to photograph or write but for God's sake stop talking. Now I can talk...
...magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that those which escaped had gone on into China. If this was true, and if the Jap was right in saying that three U.S. aircraft carriers had launched them in Japanese waters, then the U.S. had pulled a coup indeed. B-25s (built for the Army) might...