Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today as the House votes on the continuance of the Reciprocal Trade Pacts, time-worn ruts in the path of economic thought threaten to direct the course of American foreign policy. Right wheels of protectionism and isolationism indicate "no renewal." Left wing ruts are only lightly traced into American economic soil although sanctioned by both idealism and naked self interest. Unbelievable as it may seem at the present moment the ghost of an outmoded concept walks politically in our midst...
...plane headed out to the bay with fishermen on small boats waving at them as they passed. Nine Zeros started to chase the plane but it outdistanced all but two. One got right behind to the left and began putting bullets through the wing. The pilot just heeled over to head him off, all the guns turned on him and he went down...
...such flexibility of fighter supply, engineers devised a big (165-gallon) plastic tank, attached one to each wing of the Lightning. Weighing 1,000 Ib. when full (90 empty), the tanks are jettisoned when used. Streamlined, they take only 4% off the P-38's top speed, a lower percentage at cruising speeds...
Routine submarine patrol completed, the broad-winged Catalina lumbered baseward across Greenland's icecap, through a formless, numbing nothingness of snow and ice and haze and white fingers of sun feeling through clouds. Suddenly there was the awful crunch of hull against frozen snow and ice. The pilots grabbed for the throttles. The plane rose for an instant, settled, slid 300 feet up the slope of centuries-old ice, turned to rest on her left wing tip, stopped dead. An alert radio operator flashed...
...Fourteenth day. . . . [I] climb up on the wing and see two men coming over the rise in single file. Then there appears a third, fourth and finally a fifth...