Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Army bombers, escorted by Lockheed P-38 fighters, dropped out of the Aleutian fogs and plastered Kiska harbor. Four Jap Zero fighters were shot down. An estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
...quick-zooming, vulnerable Jap Zero* fighter is a triumph for the world's greatest adapters. How the underestimated little single-motored plane could get away with such power and maneuverability was a mystery for several weeks after Pearl Harbor. U.S. aviators soon found part of the answer (and made the most of it): no armor protection for pilot or self-sealing fuel tanks, therefore less weight. The rest of the story has come out gradually from examination of shot-down Zeros...
Meanwhile, on Guadalcanal, U.S. Marines fought off Zeros and bombers that were attacking there. With the loss of only three planes, Marine pilots destroyed eleven Zero fighters, five two-motored Mitsubishis, five carrier bombers. By the time the battle ended and the Japs had withdrawn in the light of a bright moon, U.S. pilots of all the services had shot down a total of 96 enemy planes. U.S. losses: eight pilots missing...
Quiet. However rambunctious in the past, Cheyfitz gave not one peep after WLB's jolting decision. But his old sidekick, tough, grim-faced Alex Balint sounded off, lambasted the order as a "mistake," said that worker "morale has dropped from 100% to zero." Then the union surprised everybody, said it would not sanction any protest strike because "we fully realize it would only create disunity...
...wood pulp and grain alcohol. It is as pliable, flexible, nonporous and durable as rubber, but is not so elastic or resilient, and tears more easily. Hence it is not good for tires or tubes. But it is flameproof and does not lose its flexibility at 70° below zero, thus is useful in high-altitude bombing planes...