Word: groundedness
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When pilots were grounded by fierce storms in the mountains, Tom Hardin would often climb into a plane and coolly dive into the weather, frequently went on to Kunming with a vital cargo. Within a year, eight times as much tonnage was being flown into China as when Hardin arrived...
For five and a half days-a full working week-hundreds of thousands of Manhattan's skyscraper office workers were grounded. In 2,100 buildings, 16,600 elevator operators and service employes were out on strike.
Maintenance was LeMay's fetish ("you can't drop bombs from a grounded plane"). When he noticed the ground force overworked in one group, while another group's men were comparatively idle, he pooled all the maintenance forces within each wing. A crack pilot with an exceptional...
But LeMay's great asset was his ability to make men work hard-even in the wretched (by Air Forces standards) living conditions in the Marianas. When he was hard-pressed he borrowed Seabees to help load bombs, and they liked it. Somehow the grim General made hard work...
TIME Correspondent Craig Thompson, looking and listening throughout the trial, wrote this account: The prisoners' dock was a picket-fence pen knocked together out of boards salvaged from packing cases. It contained four rows of seats, four to a row. Around the dock there was a plethora of blue...