Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether or not the British take Tripoli, General Sir Archibald Wavell had accomplished a brilliant tactical triumph. He had rolled up his enemy and then kept him rolling. Failure to do just that is an occupational disease among generals, who often have a fatal weakness for consolidation after partial victory-e.g., Meade after Gettysburg, Lee after Manassas I and II. For the first time in this war the Axis had run up against someone who could hit hard and follow through...
Flight 6's crash was the fourth fatal airline accident (the fifth to wreck an airliner) since President Roosevelt reorganized the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority last summer, made it a dependency of the Department of Commerce and abolished the old Air Safety Board. At that time U. S. airlines had flown 15 months without a fatal crash. This week, as Pilot Scott was buried, fellow airmen recalled their warning, given to the President by the airlines and the Air Line Pilots' Association, and echoed by Senator Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA law: that to keelhaul...
...lioness whelped in the street. There were no such signs or portents anywhere. Yet very soon now, on a Monday at high noon, a U. S. President would be inaugurated for a third term-a fact as gravid with significance to the U. S. as Julius Caesar's fatal Ides of March were to Rome...
...Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter. Then there was an explosive crash. To death against a mountainside had ridden an Army B-17 crew, three officers, three enlisted men. Meantime the military flying services, speeding up training and tactical work, marked down their 59th fatal crash in 1940. Dead...
...Chicago sped Civil Aeronautics Bu-reaumen to investigate the third fatal crash on U. S. airliners since Aug. 30, after a flawless 17 months in which no airline passenger was killed. The cause of Trip 21's crash was a matter for public hearing, laboratory inspection of her engines, props and other remains. First news reports were that ice brought her down. United denied this report, pointed out that if Trip 21 was taking on ice. Pilot Scott would have reported it as airline rules prescribe, pointed out, too, that many other runs came in around the same time...