Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. and the growing U.S. bomber and fighter forces in Egypt concentrated on Rommel's airdromes for two weeks before the battle opened. In the last four days of preparation, Axis airports and grounded planes were continuously bombed. Result: at the zero hour, the British and U.S. flyers believed that for the first time they had more planes in the air than the Germans had. British, South African, Australian and U.S. flyers worked in perfect coordination; the teamwork between ground and air forces had also improved since the British retreated into Egypt last summer...
...first Zero was easy. Smitty sent a burst into the Jap's rear and the plane fell into the sea off Guadalcanal. Then Smitty spotted another, attacking the wingman of his Marine squadron. He banked sharply, caught the Zero full in his sights and that was two down in almost as many minutes. Telling about the exploit, Smitty was carefully casual...
Curtiss P-40-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Most discussed of all U.S. combat aircraft, this fighter has the virtues of heavy hitting power, excellent armor, high diving speed, and the leakproof tanks common to all U.S. combat aircraft. Against the Zero it has proved, on the average, to be superior. But most P-40 pilots frankly say that they would like more altitude, if they could still maintain their advantages of superior firepower and protection...
...super-plane is this Zero, captured in the Aleutians. It is well built, flies beautifully, but has no armor, less power (900 h.p.), less speed (about 300 m.p.h.), less firepower (two cannon, two machine guns) than the best U.S. fighters...
...reason why these reforms should be postponed. For the taxes had not only frozen capital markets, they had also killed the goose that laid the golden egg: Federal revenues from capital-gains taxes dropped from $576,000,000 in 1928 to $13,000,000 in 1940 and to zero-or perhaps an actual deficit-last year...