Word: assignment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Selective Service officials, convinced that Corstorphine is a genuine convert and "not just trying to get out of the Navy," decided to assign him to some sort of noncombat work...
They Must Get Back. Unlike other flyers, reconnaissance pilots usually fly unarmed-and they must return from their missions. They generally take their photographs at very high altitudes (over 30,000 ft.). Both the U.S. and Royal Air Forces now assign their best planes for reconnaissance. The U.S. favorite is a stripped-down P-38, with five cameras in the nose instead of guns. The Flying Fortress, with eleven cameras, is also used, on less hazardous missions. The British use Mosquitoes and Spitfires. Military needs have fathered many innovations, such as flash bombs for night photography, a new camera with...
...departing members of 10-13, having mind and body, do hereby take the opportunity to pass on, and, in some cases to re-assign certain properties extant upon this campus...
Editorial work on the company year book is progressing in satisfactory style, according to Editor G. M. Mason. For Dog's information, the following ments: Watson, Zink, White, Curtis, men are assisting in the staff assign Stoeffel, Cowden, Hershberg, Peachey, Chester, R. W. Miller, Fitzgerald, Rohr, Byrne, Young, Craft, and Przychodzin. The title page of The Signal will feature a sepia tone, which, according to Mason, should stamp the book as a classy job from the beginning...
...control-tower operators are a kind of remote-control traffic cop. No plane may move about the field without their clearance. By radio and signal lamp they issue priorities in landings and takeoffs, clear and assign runways, give directions for taxiing, direct planes to hangars, cite wind direction and velocity. At a busy field, tower operators have no time for knitting...