Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mounted steadily since last October, the last month when the reduced supply still exceeded the already rationed demand. In November came the U.S. invasion of North Africa and a sudden, inordinate drain on Eastern oil stocks; as the North African champaign became more complicated, the drain increased. Zero and sub-zero weather compounded the crisis. Last week some strong emergency measures were necessary. Harold L. Ickes, Petroleum Administrator for War, banned delivery of gasoline by tank car to the East, ordered the cars to haul only fuel oil. Three days earlier he and OPA cut the fuel oil ration...
...another attacker got Widhelm's oil cooler. He put his plane in a tight corkscrew which no Zero could follow (Gus used to be a stunter), landed in the water and got into his rubber raft with Stokely...
...Zero attacked Gus Widhelm-Jap aviators are trained to attack the squadron leader. "I pulled my nose up," Widhelm says, "and put my bead just about half a cowling above him and held the fire right there until he flew into it. He burst into flames...
With Expansionist Hunter in the pilot's seat, Northwest pushed westward to Seattle and Portland, hiked gross revenues threefold to $5,000,000, lifted profits from zero to over $400,000. Meanwhile Hunter made a long survey flight to Alaska, followed it with a CAB petition for a commercial route to Fairbanks, others to New York City and Washington. But the war froze these petitions in their pigeonholes, forced Airman Hunter to look for something else. He found it in a big Army contract to fly anything & everything from Minneapolis to Alaska...
...night and next day George Kenney's airmen hammered at the convoy and its protecting planes. Mitchell bombers sank a transport which rolled over in the shallow water near the Lae jetty, knocked down five Zeros which attempted to interfere. Beaufighters swept into the Lae airdrome, burnt up one Zero, shot up others on the runway. In the late afternoon the oft-derided Kittyhawks were attacked by 18 Zeros. Score: 13 Zeros shot down, one Kittyhawk (pilot safe). When 20 more Zeros jumped some Lightnings they lost all but five. Total Jap planes lost in three days: 85 certain...