Word: runway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
Woods wirelessed Hong Kong: "FORCED DOWN SUIFU BY JAPS, STARBOARD WING SMASHED. SEND ANOTHER. MOUNTING RUNWAY...
...crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened to 41 of her 82 tons (full load), she climbed easily while Douglas workmen left their work...
Attack. The U.S. was on the move elsewhere in the Pacific. More contractors and new material were being rushed to Guam for construction of a base only 1,500 miles from Yokohama. At Wake, new runways began to ring the lagoon. On Midway Islands, one runway was complete and ready for planes, one enormous hangar sparkled new in the sun. Soon a great bomber runway would be casting up far-sweeping silver-winged planes that could reach the heart of Japan...
Long Island's Belmont Park, long known as the Newmarket of America, last week tried to become the Longchamps of America too. As an accessory to the $5,000 Fashion Stakes (opening-day feature for two-year-old fillies), President Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt set up a runway on a balcony café overlooking the paddock, got ten Manhattan smartshops to send clotheshorses to parade between races...