Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week U.S. warships again moved in, blew up ammunition the Jap had just landed on Guadalcanal's northwest tip. The Jap retaliated by sending 40 planes at Henderson Field. Grumman Wildcat fighters clawed down 19 of them, lost only two of their...
...Grumman F 4 F (Wildcat). The Navy's standard fighter, as of today, the F 4 F is unquestionably the best carrier fighter now in battle service...
...first Jap casualties was a four-motored patrol plane, shot down by a stub-winged Grumman Wildcat. From then on, the August sky was filled with U.S. planes and the bombers and fighters of the enemy, wheeling around each other in no-man's-cloudland while again the opposing surface fleets never once came in sight of each other on the broad ocean...
...continue to dominate the petroleum industry. The rate of discovery of new oil in the U.S. has been falling steadily for five years (TIME. Nov. 17). Frederic H. Lahee, chief Sun Oil geologist, points out that in 1937 almost 1,700,000 barrels of oil were discovered for every wildcat hole drilled. By 1941 the figure was only 622,000 barrels. If this downward trend continues for another five years, new oil discoveries will fall below the amount used and oil reserves may begin a disastrous decline...
...from the knowing, energetic Detroit News, the city's largest newspaper (circ. 336,014), came a different reaction. Reprinting part of LIFE'S text, the News said: "It is a harsh indictment. To much of it Detroit must plead guilty." As to wildcat strikes and sitdowns, said the News, Franklin Roosevelt had asked for specific information. It urged all who knew about the unpublicized stoppages to write to the White House...