Word: willow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though he had missed death by inches several times (once the XS-1's cabin pressure system went wrong, subjected him to skull-cracking pressure), he showed no nervousness or apprehension over his job. Between flights at Muroc he lounged comfortably in an adobe cottage at nearby Willow Springs. He swam, read, listened to Rachmaninoff and Chopin recordings, dreamily contemplated his fondest ambition: exploring the Amazon with a helicopter. From time to time he climbed into a conventional P-51, flew to Los Angeles to look in on his girl friends...
Finally, Allen suggested a "world symphony" to sell his soap ("We'll have 300 violins piped in from California . . . trombones from Texas . . . 90 French horns direct from Marseilles"). But it would not do, said Allen. To the tune of Tit-Willow, he explained...
...into U.S. colleges. Almost everything about S.A.S. was American, from its sentimental school song ("Fair is the name we love. . .") to its menus (Chinese dishes only twice a week). Native instructors taught Chinese, otherwise the curriculum was straight out of the Little Red Schoolhouse. On S.A.S.'s 15 willow-shaded acres, with its two gyms and the only quarter-mile track in Shanghai, American boys learned to excel at American sports...
...sunk $792,985 in the airfield, which has two swimming pools on its 180 acres. It was knocked down to the Institute for $407,000 less a "100% discount" (i.e., for nothing). The War Assets Administration has sold 60 war surplus properties this way. Samples: Willow Run Air Base to the University of Michigan, the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in Philadelphia to Temple University...
...worked no miracles, it has made more progress than most critics expected. Willow Run was leased in September, but it was November when they moved in. K-F was hampered not only by the same strikes and shortages that have held the motor industry's output down to 25% of schedule, but by difficulties unique to K-F (inability to buy steel, rumors of rifts between the partners...