Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass can quite easily become mess-if it hasn't done so already. Personally, I have more faith in quality than in quantity, a faith that the showing of two good planes and the oft-mentioned-via Churchill-few good men helped strengthen. Next came the Zero, an unusual plane and a good one, in that it was not constructed according to the orthodox pattern. Then came Rommel and his few, good high-velocity guns. And what will come next? Why, something else possessing quality rather than quantity factors...
...returns on the other two concentrated industries-bicycles and typewriters -are already in. They were concentrated down to zero production for civilian use. So far concentration has simply meant liquidation of consumers' goods. Soon furniture, paper, manufactured foods, farm equipment, even clothing are likely to be concentrated...
...thousand willing teachers were rounded up and buckled down to studying aeronautics during the summer. Professor Wood's teams wrote 18 books, from teachers' manuals to a 900-page work that covered flying from Icarus to Zero. Macmillan's made publishing history by turning them out (ordinarily a six-month job) in 38 days. The books were distributed to schools at record low prices. At the school discount, the 900-page Science of Pre-Flight Aeronautics cost...
...prime virtue of the Zero is that it handles well-climbs fast and maneuvers quickly. Its speed is good (more than 350 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet) and its service ceiling is exceptional: 36,000 feet. It is light (5,140 Ib. is normal flying weight) and rather small (wing span, 39.4 feet; length, 28.4 feet...
...zero gale was driving needle-sharp snow over Elk Mountain against the tiny station, piling drifts over the main line to Parco. Traffic had stopped. Outside, almost buried, were a giant mallet locomotive and a mountain snowplow. U.P. General Manager William Martin Jeffers was telling the men he knew the job was dangerous but it had to be done. Not one to give an order he could not fill, Jeffers climbed into the cab. Drwn the winding right of way the engine and plow battled foot by foot. Every curve meant the danger of an avalanche. Every few minutes...