Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Air Force pilots had at last landed on and flown off Navy carriers...
...air transport services of the Navy and Air Force had been merged into the Military Air Transport Service, and the Berlin airlift was a dramatic demonstration of what M.A.T.S. could accomplish...
Three in the Ring. Some confusion stemmed from the false notion that the act was supposed to ''merge" the forces. It was supposed to do nothing of the kind. It did, in fact, create the Air Force as a separate arm (thus putting three battlers into the ring instead of two). At the insistence of the Navy, the act precluded real unity in operations by proclaiming that the Navy should keep its air arm and hang on to the Marines (a land force). The Secretaries of the three services were given the specific right-which they freely exercised...
...Atlanta Constitution found a way last week to make high-priced newsprint carry both editorial matter and advertising in the same space. The paper first printed a one-color ad for Delta Air Lines, then printed the financial page over it (see cut). Adman B. D. Adams, who thought it up for his airline client and ran the ad in four Southern papers, said graciously that any newspaper could use his idea...
...famed Lafayette Escadrille in World War I; of a heart attack; in Fremont, Ohio. In his 20 years as a mercenary, Hall flew for six nations but never for the U.S., in 1933 was jailed for 2½ years when as an adviser to the Chinese Nationalist air force (he called himself General Chan), he was convicted of taking off with...