Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Morning Chapel Service for new students. Appleton Chapel (east wing of Memorial Church...
Between times he experimented. George Kenney was the first man to fix machine guns in the wing of a plane: back in 1922 he installed two .30-caliber Brownings in the wing of an old De Havilland. Kenney is the inventor of the parachute bomb, which enables bombing planes to fly lower, bomb more accurately. He invented this bomb in 1928, but it was never used until last September, when he dropped 240 of them on the Japanese at Buna. Twenty-two Jap planes were standing on the strip; 17 of them were destroyed...
...emergency strip at Wanigepi, on the coast of southeast Buna. As the troops moved toward Buna, Kenney had to find new strips for his supply planes. He found them by sending light planes to drag the coast for level ground. Sometimes it was pocked with palms, sometimes wing-deep in grass. The first pilot to land would squirm to a semi-crash landing. When the ear-ringed natives gathered round, he spread his wares-cowrie shells and tobacco sticks-and bargained to have trees and grass sliced down. The natives, men & women, usually set to work with a will...
...socially conscious wing of the Catholic Church had already chosen sides...
When contributions fell off, Miss Carr inevitably had budget trouble. Running in the red for years, Hull House had used up all its surplus funds. A Carr protégée, Mary Wing, offered to make up further deficits of some $20,000-on condition that her friend Charlotte be given a free hand in shaping Hull House policy. The Board of Trustees found the condition unacceptable, and Charlotte Carr refused to work on a smaller budget...