Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Mr. Frank is a clever man, no one can deny. His program twists and turns the New Deal mercilessly, and ends up by tagging it with the twin damnations--reaction and defeatism. It is reactionary, says Mr. Frank, because it restricts free enterprise, and it is defeatist because it assumes that America has reached a limit of economic expansion. The results of the reign of this two-headed monster Mr. Frank finds in many present-day aches and pains--the debt, the unemployed, taxes, and labor trouble. He then makes the promise that if the god of free enterprise...
...Langenhagen picture, made at about 5,000 ft., several planes can be seen moving across the field around (3). There are apparently 23 Heinkel He 111K bombers, twin-motored with a 75-ft. wingspread, two Junkers transports and three others. Oil spots on the runways show where planes are regularly parked. The hangars around the upper edge of the field are staggered in position so that they cannot be lined up for bombing...
...like Eiffel Towers, the resourceful professor planned to rig square sails which would unfurl, furl at the touch of a button. The freeze-up in the valley had made him rush his plans, and under bare baskets the Experimenter buzzed off among the gathering ice-cakes, pushed by her twin Diesel engines. It was New Year...
...Vickers Wellington bombers was tackled by Messerschmitt fighters based on Helgoland. Britain continued to claim that she lost only seven and downed twelve (out of perhaps 36) Messerschmitts; that the virtue of close formation bomber flying was proved to the hilt; that Germany's new Me-110s, twin-motored and twin-cannoned, with top speed of 379 m.p.h., are good but not irresistible...
...fast new twin-motored Messerschmitts were described not only as potent fighters but as ships capable of protecting bombing missions beyond the ordinary range of German pursuits. The whole Helgoland performance, said the Germans, proved the futility of attempting to bomb without fighter escorts-a notable admission since the Germans have used no escorts in their bombing of British Fleet bases...