Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Defense. A 70-group Air Force; Universal Military Training: continued development of atomic power under civilian control...
...Vice President, said Harry Truman, ever understood each other so perfectly. Mon C. Wallgren, an old crony from the Senate and now the lame-duck Governor of Washington, arrived and gave newsmen an exhibition of his skill at billiards (he was national amateur 18.2 balkline champion in 1929). Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington, whose help in the presidential campaign had been negligible and whose fate now was the secret of Mr. Truman, came & went...
...Major General Alfred M. Gruenther, who is attached to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and who had flown down with him, had a word in private with the President afterwards. Photographers who were allowed to snap the scene from a distance of 25 ft. saw Mr. Truman chopping the air with his hands as he talked. Forrestal, it was announced later, had simply reported on a recent six-day trip he had taken to Europe. The interview lasted a scant 45 minutes and Forrestal flew home again...
...heavy fog settled over the air corridors to blockaded Berlin. Instrument flying was the rule rather than the exception. On some days the airlift terminals were socked in so tightly that operations were suspended for as long as nine hours at a time. But after the first month of Germany's rugged winter weather, the daily average of cargo hauled stood at 4,229 tons-only some 300 tons below minimum needs...
...Yale man in a white hat made two big mistakes. The first was to go down on the field. The second mistake was trying to salvage his blue banner. The white hat went sailing up in the air and it's a miracle his head didn't go with it. A few of his compatriots made a rash sortie in rescue, but it was a lost cause. They were neatly cut off and annihilated...