Word: groundedness
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When war first broke, Washington grounded all civilian flyers, suspended their flying licenses until they could prove that they were citizens of the U.S. or its Allies. They were permitted to make strictly regulated flights anywhere except over a 150-mile strip along the West Coast and over designated military...
*U.S. Army airmen also jumped into the Malaya fight, burned grounded planes and a hangar on a Jap airdrome 300 miles northwest of Singapore.
The U.S. "I have been impressed and encouraged by ... [finding] an Olympian fortitude which, far from being based upon complacency, is only the mask of an inflexible purpose and the proof of a sure, well-grounded confidence in the final outcome."
In Portland they were talking about the Mauna Ala, which grounded while groping for the mouth of the Columbia River in a blackout, and the 60,000 Christmas trees which washed ashore while the freighter broke up. In San Francisco they were talking about flares dropped from an enemy plane...
Early Tuesday afternoon the Atlantic Seaboard had its own air-raid scare. Planes from Mitchel Field, L.I. took the air (see p. 61). Improvised sirens sounded in the streets of Manhattan. Civilian planes were grounded. Schoolchildren were sent home.