Tustin Blimp Hangars
These enormous World War II relics are some of the largest wooden structures in the world.
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The president claims the media outlets “suppress” polls that show how popular he is.
The blimp would be the largest aircraft in the world and would be used for humanitarian missions, getting supplies, food and other necessities to hard-to-reach areas around the globe.
Talking to people in the Home Guard, including Blimps and quite wealthy businessmen, I find everyone completely pro-Russian, though much divided in opinion about the Russian capacity to resist. Typical conversation, recorded as well as I can remember it: -
Wholesale poulterer: “Well, I hope the Russians give them a bloody good hiding.”
Clothing manufacturer (Jewish): “They won’t. They’ll go to pieces, just like last time. You’ll see.”
Doctor (some kind of foreigner, perhaps refugee): “You’re absolutely wrong. Everyone’s underrated the strength of Russia. They’ll wipe the floor with the Nazis.”
Wholesale grocer: “Damn it, there’s two hundred bloody millions of them”.
In British and New Zealand slang a "hiding" may refer to a sound beating. Come here Rangi, I am gonna give you such a hiding.
hiding[hid・ing2]
- 発音記号[háidiŋ]
[名]((略式))
1 むち打つこと
give a child a hiding
子供を打ちすえる.
子供を打ちすえる.
2 完敗
get quite a hiding
完敗する
完敗する
give a good hiding to ...
…を打ち負かす.
…を打ち負かす.
be on a hiding to nothing
((英略式))成功の見込みがまったくない, 勝ち目がない.Clothing manufacturer: “Yes, but they’re not organised”, etc., etc., etc.
mop up the floor
Also, wipe the floor with. Defeat thoroughly, overwhelm, as in The young boxer said he was sure to mop up the floor with his opponent, or I just know we'll wipe the floor with the competition. [Late 1800s]
Cólonel Blímp[Cólonel Blímp] 
George Orwell and Tom Wintringham made especially extensive use of the term "blimps", Orwell in his articles[3] and Wintringham in his books How to Reform the Army and People's War, with exactly the above meaning in mind.
In his 1941 essay "The Lion and the Unicorn", Orwell referred to two important sub-sections of the middle class, one of which was the military and imperialistic middle class, nicknamed the Blimps, and characterised by the "half-pay colonel with his bull neck and diminutive brain". He added that they had been losing their vitality over the past thirty years, "writhing impotently under the changes that were happening".[4]
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