Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gardiner had forged a potent political weapon. In Gardiner's own farmer-dominated Saskatchewan the up-&-coming Socialist C.C.F., which both Liberals and Conservatives mortally hate and fear, has been winning many a convert among the disgruntled. Minister Gardiner's bacon deal might help stem the Left-wing tide in the part of the Dominion where it flows highest...
Later the Mustang proved itself a magnificent low-level strafer and locomotive buster. It was fast, agile and an "honest" aircraft (i.e., with no eccentric handling traits). One P-51 set a record for ruggedness when it flew home with a yard of starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
...Power. From the beginning the British had especially admired the Mustang's lovely lines and the aerodynamic efficiency of its sharp-edged "laminar flow" wing. More than a year ago they tried stepping the plane up with a more powerful engine, and passed the tip on to the U.S. Air Forces, which took up the same experiment. The present P-51B is ail-American except for the design of its 1,500-h.p. Packard-built Rolls-Royce Merlin engine (same type used in the latest Spitfires). It chews the air with a four-bladed propeller, has a two-speed...
Would the Willkie wing secede from the Party if Willkie fails of the nomination? The threat was hardly that strong; but it served notice on the G.O.P. National Committee that the Willkiemen will fight for every tactical advantage. At Chicago this week they had given in on one point: the choice of Chicago as the convention city. They won another, perhaps more important: setting of an (early convention date, probably June 26. For the Willkiemen figure they will need months of work to reorganize the G.O.P., tossing overboard National Chairman Harrison Spangler and friends...
There were some who mourned and were nameless. They were the men with a cause but no party, the remaining young hopefuls in the Wallace wing, who had looked on helplessly as the President dealt more & more with the Hagues, Kellys and Flynns, the Jesse Joneses and Big Businessmen...