Word: wildcatted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Detroit, fourth city of the U.S., symbol and seat of America's industrial genius, had come news that made all citizens anxious. Sitdowns, wildcat strikes, poor planning, material shortages, short tempers and bad attitudes of union workers (see p. 71) had cut war production. A housing shortage forced some workers to live in tents, shacks and trailers. There was tragic, dirty confusion: in Macomb County, just north of the city, newly laid water mains were torn up to supply another area. Some 300 families of defense workers were forced to lug their water, some as far as three...
...worst State but the best. Said cocky Governor Homer M. Adkins: "Arkansans are now awake to the vast wealth and attractiveness of their State." Said reformed Renegade Bob Burns: "Now take my Uncle Doug. He used to walk barefoot on a barbed-wire fence with a wildcat under each arm. You know Doug-Douglas MacArthur...
Navy Planes. In naval aviation, a field where the top Navy men of all nations have been sound asleep, the U.S. is a long way out in front. Grumman's famed Wildcat fighters are the best carrier craft in the world, will soon have to fight for their title with another U.S. product: Vought-Sikorsky's gull-winged Corsair. Grumman's new torpedo-plane Avenger has no equal in foreign services. Consolidated's Catalinas have piled up an unequaled record for reliable scouting. And bigger and faster flying boats are coming: Consolidated's four-engined...
Both Avenger and Wildcat are built in the streamlined plant of the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp.-and above each Grumman building flutters the fouled-anchor-&-"E" pennant, the Navy's tribute, (first of its kind to an airplane company...
...Navy will not release either pictures or reports on Avenger operations. Not so with the earlier model Wildcat. Last February, carrier-based Wildcats engaged Japanese land-based aircraft over the Marshall Islands, shot down ten fighters and three bombers without loss of a single U.S. plane. At Wake Island, two Marines in Wildcats sank a Jap cruiser with bombs. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare was at a Wildcat's controls when he bagged five Jap bombers and crippled another in a single engagement...