Word: airman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Exercise. Airman Thach himself needed training in submarine warfare. He took a short course at Norfolk's ASW Tactical School, whizzed through studies in sound detection in New London, dropped anchor at Key West's weapons-testing center, climbed aboard every nuclear submarine in the Atlantic, visited destroyers, jawed with officers and bluejackets. Next he ordered a "cross-pollination" program, sent his aviators aboard submarines, his sub skippers into helicopters, his destroyer men into 52Fs. He put airplane pilots at the helms of submarines to help work out tactical underwater maneuvers...
...Lord Plushbottom." Not the least of the elements of the power that exists in the Mideast is Admiral Holloway himself, a "black-shoe sailor," (i.e., no airman), whose square, salt-cured features are often belied by a suave, diplomatic air that sometimes spills over into pomposity. In civvies he sports a Malacca cane. He is something of a connoisseur of wines. He interlards his conversation with phrases out of Dickens or Thackeray, loves to write what he calls "erudite letters" (favorite word: vouchsafe). "If he will ever be known for any command, it will be for his command...
...Carmichael ran Capital as a one-man air show, wanted more of a team operation. Last summer Murchison and his backers brought in Major General David H. Baker as president and chief executive officer (TIME, Aug. 5), moved Slim Carmichael up to board chairman. With little real authority remaining, Airman Carmichael finally quit, saying only that he left "for personal reasons." Probable choice to become Capital's next chairman: Lawyer Murchison...
...first hostage camp was Thomas Mosness, 22, a bespectacled Navy airman from Ames, Iowa. He had a .45-cal. pistol and gunbelt given him by his captors. He practices fast draw with the rebels, said he is 'just like one of them.' Further in the hills, I reached a main rebel headquarters, where the 26th of July [rebel] flag flies, a clerk typist pounds out war orders, and eight elderly civilian hostages live with no complaints. 'Hell, a few days won't hurt us,' said one. 'We are all rebel sympathizers anyway...
...Burgess piloted T.W.A. for a year until falling out with Hughes last December; since then, Chairman Warren Lee Pierson has acted as president, and T.W.A., with no firm, clear-cut leadership, lost $14 million in the first five months of 1958. To pull up T.W.A., Hughes picked an old airman. Californian Thomas climbed into the air as a World War I Navy aviator, bossed the big Foreman & Clark men's clothing chain from 1937 to 1953, was G.O P. national finance chairman until he resigned last week. As Navy Secretary, he sped the fleet into the age of seaborne...