Word: backwardation
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...confused with the autogiro, which uses an airplane propeller for forward movement, can neither take off vertically, hover (except with the help of a good wind), nor travel sideways or backward...
...surplus will be far greater than ever within a few years after this war comes to an end. We can be decently human and really hardheaded if we exchange our post-war surplus for goods, for peace and for improving the standards of living of so-called backward peoples. We can get more for our surplus production in this way than by any high-tariff, penny-pinching, isolationist policies which hide under the cloak of 100% Americanism...
Peter Marsh Stanford is no ordinary naval expert. He has been a seadog since the age of two, knows naval history backward and forward, is no mean amateur expert. He has not yet been on a ship bigger than a destroyer, but he knows the sea, "which is more important." A third-year student at Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, he will be 16 years old come January...
...maneuvering and accurate firing. >The Sikorsky-developed helicopter, with horizontally rotating blades overhead and small vertical blades on the tail, has reached the stage where its designer prophesies great value as an anti-submarine device, in liaison work and sea rescues. It can hang stationary in the air, fly backward, drop vertically, land on a dime. >The batlike Flying Wing, with fuselage and wings molded into a single, obtuse-angled wing, is one of the many radical types now under study, may eventually revolutionize all aircraft design...
...Rome radio admitted the retreat of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's German and Italian troops in North Africa, but tried to explain that in fluid desert warfare the Rommel tactic was to lead the British on. A popular quip became: "A clock moves forward saying tictac; Rommel moves backward saying...