Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...visit home. This is the period, long or short, depending on business and weather, of the Christmas shutdown. In many a mill town the rising whine of the headsaw biting into a log dies away; the absence of the pulsing rhythm of a sawmill-compounded of the piercing wing-wing of the trimmer, of the throb of the conveyors, of the thud of lumber falling on transfer chains-makes every day seem like Sunday. The noon whistle, no longer a deep roar that reaches for miles through the woods, is just a perfunctory hoot for the millwrights working on repairs...
...defense, the strike-ridden Northwest has had more than its share of strikes, and this one aroused little public outcry. But it was like no other Northwest lumber strike on record. It promised to set a new-pattern in Northwest labor relations. It threatened to isolate an extreme left-wing group of C. I. O. unions. It might even foreshadow a new period in joint A. F. of L.C. I. O. relations throughout the entire...
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...
Last week Randolph Field lost the quiet, -steely-eyed officer who has been its commandant for three years. Colonel John B. Brooks was promoted to Brigadier General, transferred to the new Westover Field (at Chicopee, Mass.) to command a bombing wing. His new stars pleased General Brooks, but he was bound to regret leaving Randolph. For the Air Corps's biggest job just now is training pilots, and Randolph is the centre of the job. Under John Brooks, the course had been drastically changed and speeded up. Under his successor, Colonel Idwal H. Edwards, it is soon...
...First wing of the skeleton was economic...