Word: pursuit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There PerAlemánn learned that the fighter pilot had been killed. Said the Strong Man, chalk-white and shaken: "We have been born a second time." Later he took a train back to Buenos Aires, where imaginative Argentines, with no foundation in fact, were already calling the fallen pursuit pilot a home-grown version of Japan's Kamikaze pilots. One proposal that was bandied about: a monument to the man who had scored a near miss...
...Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. was, as expected, in good health. After the Jap surrender, Grumman stopped making its famed Hellcat and laid off all of its 22,000 workers, then hired some 5,000 back. By last week, Grumman was shaken down to production of two Navy pursuit ships, the Bearcat and the Tigercat. They still have Navy orders for production at a rate of 75 a month. This was far below Grumman's war peak of 658 planes a month but well above their best peacetime volume...
...defense, Major General F. L. Martin, commanding general of the Hawaiian Air Force, had only 123 modern pursuit and bombardment planes, a handful of other largely obsolete craft...
...line of Jackie Cochran and the big purse of Odlum's Atlas Corp. (oil, airlines, utilities, Manhattan's swank Bonwit Teller store, movies) could not solve the wartime paper problem. But it might well help develop Liberty's new lease on life into a more successful pursuit of advertisers...
Berliners lifted startled eyes one day this week. Pursuit planes and great transports were thundering from the west, over the same routes the destroying bombers had once followed. This time the planes carried peacemakers. On Sunday Harry Truman, President of the U.S., landed at Potsdam. On Monday he sat down at the conference table with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a refurbished castle once owned by Kaiser Wilhelm...