Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...form, if not in fact. In a matter of months, he announced, he hoped to have the top brass of the three services and 12,000 underlings relocated in new, chummy quarters in the Pentagon, a shift once estimated as a two-to three-year job. He ordered the Air Force's General Joseph T. McNarney to shake down the hundreds of duplicating and overlapping service boards and agencies. Four days later Johnson wiped out nine service boards as unnecessary. He made it plain that he would stand for "no vying between the services for headlines...
Johnson also admitted that he had a "pretty fair conviction" of how the competition between the Air Force and Navy's air arm should be decided. Anyone who objected, he said, "would have a chance to argue me out of that conclusion in the next couple of days." After that anyone who still disagreed would get out. Said Johnson: "There will just not be room for them around the Pentagon and I told the three secretaries that...
...stripped-down Pacific Fleet (TIME, April 4). Able, popular "Raddy" Radford would get the four stars of a full admiral, but officers of the Navy and the other services got the point: Radford had been the most articulate, determined foe of what the Navy regards as an Air Force threat to the functions and size of the Navy's air...
...went as the lawyers, collecting $2,275 a week from the C.P. in fees, worked to goad the judge into making a prejudicial error; it would be handy on appeal. Medina occasionally reddened with wrath as they darted in at him: Isserman with his soft bay; Gladstein with his air of righteous plausibility turning to outraged innocence when the judge caught him laying a legal trap; Harry Sacher, the little man with the bull voice, chivying the Court, then smiling impishly, eyes cast down, while the judge mildly upbraided him; Dennis rushing in occasionally to make a choked, impassioned speech...
Before asking for revision of the act, CAB will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...