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...regarded by the Navy as the ideal use of the fire power and ruggedness of its Grumman Wildcats against the nimble but destructible Zero. When the Navy got a newer fighter-the Vought Corsair-it found weaving good for it, too. Said one Marine pilot on Guadalcanal: "We knock them off with the Thach Weave...
Fortnight ago the House attached to an appropriations bill a rider stipulating that no part of the funds provided therein should be used to pay the salaries of three men called "radicals" by the Dies committee. In effect, unable to have-at the President, the House was trying to knock off three small-fry New Dealers. One was Robert Morss Lovett, 72, Government Secretary of the Virgin Islands, oldtime liberal, war horse of pacifism, longtime English professor at the University of Chicago.* The other two were FCC employes: Psychology Professor Goodwin B. Watson of Columbia and William E. Dodd...
...Eaker & Co. can reasonably expect to get enough planes, men and bombs for an all-out trial. Mr. Churchill, Mr. Roosevelt and the heads of their armies and navies are duty bound to rate the air offensive as an uncertain experiment. They must assume that it will fail to knock out Germany, and that the bombers over Europe are hammering out a prelude to victory by invasion. But the airmen doing the bombing are under no such compulsion. It is now their business, and their inclination, to bomb for a knockout...
...packing box in his room, flicking pieces of paper into the wastebasket in the middle of the bare floor. Then he heard a knock on the door. He got up slowly and opened it, but there was nobody there...
...deepening sense of imminent, decisive action overhung the Russian front. Hitler had promised one final effort to knock the Russians out of the war. Stalin, in a cordial message to the victors of Tunisia, said that a coordinated blow by the Red Army in the east and the Allies in the west was very near...