Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...plane at Fort Sill, Okla. early this summer, an Air Corps observer was able to spot only ten of 40 camouflaged artillery fieldpieces on the ground. An observer of the Field Artillery in a plane spotted all 40 and accurately plotted their positions on his map. The explanation: the artilleryman, selected under less rigorous examination than the Air Corps man, was colorblind. Camouflage, designed to deceive the normal eye, fooled him not a whit...
Burglars. Targets for the Gangsters and other parashots will be a new class of parachute troops announced by Germany last week, trained to land on city housetops, equipped with burglar tools to break in, silken ropes down which to slide to the ground. They carry kernels of concentrated soot to make their own smoke screens while descending and after landing. Germany's "sealing" of the Maginot Line district last week, as well as the areas facing Britain, was interpreted as a precaution to keep prying eyes from seeing these burglars and other special troops at practice on new wrinkles...
Question for the Department of Justice last week was raised by the Wall Street Journal: although the Government can break up monopolies and prevent "conspiracy," can it force the fragments to compete where they do not want to? Trust-Buster Arnold took broad moral ground, made much of the disparity in size and bargaining power between the five manufacturers, the thousands of small growers. Answered American Tobacco Co.'s President George Washington Hill: "If the prosperity of an industry, the growth and successful operation of a company . . . were to be made causes for attack, then we could scarcely expect...
...pays participating colleges $50 for each student who takes the 72-hour ground course which begins his training...
...boys who hail from far & wide, pay $1,000 a year for their tuition and upkeep. One of the six military schools in the country which has never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary's "saints," the demerits they get (for anything from an unmilitary snicker to an unmade bed) "soaks." Proudest Shads are those who make the Crack Squad of 16 boys, which drills in special uniforms, with...