Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...USEFUL TO GERMANY IS SELF-EVIDENT TO AVERAGE INTELLIGENCE AND IF MR. BRENNAN SUPPOSES EIRE'S POLICY OF NEUTRALITY WILL PREVENT NAZIS OCCUPYING IT WHEN AND IF POSSIBLE HE HAS QUICKLY FORGOTTEN DENMARK, NORWAY, HOLLAND, BELGIUM. CERTAINLY GERMANY WOULD NOT BE JUSTIFIED IN DEMANDING IRISH PORTS ON GROUND OF USEFULNESS BUT WHEN HAS GERMANY EVER FELT NEED FOR JUSTIFYING HER GRABS EXCEPT WITH TONGUE IN CHEEK? . . . SHE TAKES WHAT SHE WANTS WITH NO INTENTION OF RETURNING THE LOOT IF SHE IS VICTOR WHEN HOSTILITIES CEASE. IRELAND WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR FROM BRITAIN IN LIKE CIRCUMSTANCES, AS MR. BRENNAN...
...Chicago's airport the lights were glowing-white, red, green. Men on the ground saw Trip 21 break out of the overcast, her red and green navigation lights sharp against the ceiling. From the control-tower speaker came Captain Scott's businesslike voice: "Contact-1,500"; i.e., at 1,500 feet he was out of the clouds, could see the ground. The laggard wind had freshened to 9 m.p.h. and Phil Scott had radioed he would come in on the northwest runway. As he made his turn, baggage handlers began wheeling their carts down to the gate where...
Suddenly its left wing dropped and the arrow-straight line of its flight path was broken. Inside the cabin a woman screamed. There was a horrible crash as the big silver monoplane broke an electric line. Beyond, only a block from the field, she hit the ground, burst asunder. From houses near by, residents of Cicero Avenue rushed to the wreck, carried out six dead, four who were to die before week's end, six who survived...
...pilots, actually had to have ten more weeks of training with tactical squadrons. Top-notch graduates were kept on at the schools as instructors. Courses were so compressed that instructors had little leeway to make up flying time lost because of bad weather, to nurse along slower students. Essential ground-school instruction had to be abbreviated. Veteran fliers blanched when they saw the hourly, crowded "rat race" at Randolph -the close-packed stream of trainers, gliding in to land and take on fresh cadets and instructors...
...while he ate his lunch. Then he left. At 4:30 that afternoon he was back again. He ordered two old-fashioneds, sipped them slowly. Suddenly he rose from his table and went into the lobby. Ten minutes later an attendant found him slumped in a chair in the ground-floor men's room. At his feet was a 32-calibre automatic. Blood ran from the hole behind his ear. In the memorandum book police found an eight-page note to his wife. Over & over it repeated: "This is the only way out. ... I am tired of fighting...