Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...badly hit, he didn't seem worried. Seven other P-515 came down with me, so I pulled up alongside the big ship, lowered my flaps to slow down to his speed, and then noticed a big hole about three feet square on the bottom of the wing, with flames burning inside and eating the skin away. I cut in and told him that the aluminum was melting away on his wings, and the flames were beginning to break through...
...That hit us all pretty hard. About all I could say was 'Okay, Big Friend. Lots of luck to you all.' Then the pilot's own chute opened just before the bomber flipped over her wing and went streaming down in flame...
...Sportswriter Bill Corum (Hearst): "Governor Warren is lefthanded. This should account for the left-wing vote. But if the Governor is adamant about not running, the ticket-makers might do worse than try Babe Ruth. Babe has a big following and also would be popular with the southpaws...
Meyer London, also a lawyer, a Socialist and for 30 years the "good shepherd" of the needle trades. London was "an unreconstructed idealist, one of those rare spirits whose goodness was felt by all who came in contact with him." When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger...
...right wing progressive union" which "would bring about the most far-reaching changes only within our democratic framework." Dubinsky, says Stolberg, is a social politician equal to his times. For he understood that "the New Deal signalized a drastic reorientation in our society. It marked a real break with the past. The old voluntaristic drives, the 'rugged individualism' of both capital and labor, had lost their momentum. ... In its original impulses the New Deal was an American variant of European collectivisms - trying to function within our traditional system. Labor is at the very center of this social revolution...