Word: airman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guns died away; the ragged beat of engines jockeying in formation filled the air. The first plane bore a gigantic picture of Stalin. A 96-plane formation of civilian flyers spelled out Slava Stalinu (Glory to Stalin). Twenty-five light trainers soared through a huge loop. "The famous airman Nesterov was the first to make a loop of this kind," boasted the rich loudspeaker voice. "Stand guard over our beloved country. Glory to our youth, glory to our country...
...field radio, a young airman in a grey-green general's uniform adjusted his earphones. "Guards Lieut. General V. Stalin is now at the command post," the loudspeaker announced. "The military part of the display now starts." Suddenly, two silvery, swept-wing MIG-15 jets hurtled across the field headed directly at each other, skidded narrowly past, shot away close to the speed of sound. Five new types of swept-wing jet fighters flashed past, outracing the banshee wail of their engines. Column after column of MIG-15s paraded over the crowd, followed by 100 four-engine Russian copies...
Five men were on deck for Forrest Sherman's job as Chief of Naval Operations. Most conspicuous among them-and the Navy's popular choice-was Admiral Arthur W. Radford, boss of the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Brilliant, bluntly outspoken, Airman Radford was Airman Sherman's own choice to succeed him two years hence. But popular "Raddy" Radford had led the Navy's revolt against unification in 1949, was anathema to the Air Force, whose giant B-36 bomber he scornfully labeled a "billion-dollar blunder," and had been called a "fancy Dan" by Omar Bradley...
...third and only remaining candidate was General Higino Craveiro Lopes, 57-year-old airman and ex-leader of the green-shirted Portuguese Legion. He had been hand-picked for the presidency by Salazar, the austere former schoolteacher who has run Portugal with an iron hand in a velvet glove for 23 years. On Sunday, Portugal's voters duly trooped to the polls, cast their ballots for the unopposed presidential candidate, and in went Lopes...
...flying 68 million passenger-miles a year over 3,182 miles of scheduled air lanes. Last week Colonial Airlines, with no explanation, issued a cryptic announcement: Sig Janas was out, and a new president, Alfons Landa, was running the line with the help of a new executive committee. No airman, 53-year-old Landa is a Washington lawyer, who is a director of the American Institute of Management and had done some legal work for the line. Said one Colonial hand: "I nearly dropped my teeth...