Word: washing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commander was quoting from the most significant fighter lesson learned in World War II. Both the R.A.F. and the U.S. Army Air Forces until lately were inclined to judge fighters mainly on performance at maximum altitudes, to wash them out from front-line duty if they fell short by this standard. Now U.S. and British airmen see, as the Germans saw before them, that the idea of the all-purpose, all-altitude fighter is a wasteful fallacy. Result: aircraft already built and flying are assigned duties fitting their capabilities; new designs are shaped to specific predetermined functions, at high, medium...
Your article in TIME, Sept. 15, on Secretary Ickes proved very interesting but did not do him justice. Enclosed is a picture of a street named in the Secretary's honor [see cut]. The scene is Mason City, Wash., a small town which grew out of the Grand Coulee Dam. In the picture you may notice only back doors opening onto Ickes Avenue. This is also true of all the houses on this street...
...speed in building, the Navy today has work afoot in ten of its own yards, more than 125 yards of private contractors. Before its yard expansion is finished, it will have laid out $800,000,000 for plant and equipment. From Tacoma, Wash, to Bath, Me., its working crews are on the go in three shifts 24 hours a day, 48 hours a week. The number of men employed has increased from 167,274 to 375,000, by next summer will reach...
...good a time as anybody up there-and the first thing I knew he was gone.' I looked at Herb with admiration. ... He was so calm, so unperturbed. . . . The dinner bell rang. . . . 'Don't lag, Herb,' said [Father], 'and don't forget to wash your hands.' Herb listened at the door until he was sure Father was out of earshot, and then turned to me and said, 'Joe never knew what...
...Ernest L. Baskin Jr., Sylvester, Ga.; Allan J. Caldwell, Burlington, Vt.; John F. Clark, Lynchburg, Va.; John J. Cooney Jr., Providence, R. I.; George C. Coquillard, South Bend, Ind.; Ray J. Diekemper, Los Angeles, Calif.; John C. Entz, Mesa, Ariz.; Edward H. Frost, University Heights, Ohio; Sargo Giss, Everett, Wash.; George E. Hamilton, River Forest, Ill.; Eugene S. Heckathorn, Indianapolis, Ind.; Herbert W. Hoskins Jr., Fairfield, Conn...