Word: alls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"Sure," cracked Hyman Rickover. "All Soviet naval vessels have doves of peace on their masts."
Ever so imperceptibly, Rickover smiled and delivered the last word. "It's all right to talk about peace. Now you go home and do something about it."
Around the 4th Infantry Division noncommissioned officers' club at Fort Lewis, Wash. last winter, the word was out: "See Coogan if you want to go overseas," maybe to a cushy assignment in Paris. Sergeant First Class William Coogan, at 38 a sharp-looking, 14-year regular with a good...
The Coogan-Huller travel service flourished, added a "travel now-pay later" system for men who looked like good credit risks, experimented with a "group-payment plan" when seven G.I.s promised $185 to get a buddy to Korea. In six months, the red-faced Army admitted last week, Coogan-Huller...
Then, something happened. From the radio came tense bulletins: Flight 102-Pan American's London-bound Boeing 707 jet-taking off at 8:37 from Long Island's Idlewild Airport, had lost two wheels from its four-wheeled left landing gear. There were 113 people aboard. The big...