Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Defense. $14.3 billion to provide for a 48-group Air Force of 412,000 men, an Army of 677,000 men, a Navy of 731 ships and 527,000 men, and a $600 million universal military training program. The President, well aware of the fact that the 80th Congress authorized a 70-group Air Force, warned: "Expenditures for national defense can be expected to rise substantially [in 1951] above the level estimated...
...Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa...
...tore houses apart, roared through a big lumber mill, knocked down a high smokestack, ripped bricks from a new power plant and sent chunks of concrete, heavy beams, sheets of corrugated iron and great showers of boards flying through the air for hundreds of yards...
After three months in the hurly-burly of Paris, the U.N. was back last week in its well-ordered plastic tower at Lake Success. The air was heavy with French perfume from over there. The freshly waxed green and candy pink corridors rang with cheery greetings of homing travelers. But there was little to be cheerful about...
From his headquarters at Edmonton, the commanding officer of the North West Air Command looks out and up into a vast aerial kingdom. His domain stretches 2,000 miles from Lake of the Woods to the Pacific, and 2,000 miles from the 49th Parallel to the polar seas. Prairie flying schools trained 131,553 flyers for World War II. Through North West's staging fields pass B-29s, shuttling between the U.S. and Alaska (half of the Edmonton field is set aside for Americans...