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...tract outside the city, ploughed out the cactus and rattlesnakes, built a palacelike Air Corps training center with pastel-colored buildings, olive orchards, tennis courts and bright red Thunderbird insignia over everything. The first Thunderbird graduates got their diplomas only four months after the desert was broken, had a bang-up graduation party with pretty Hollywood starlets, listened to Hoagy Carmichael (also a Southwest stockholder) pound the piano...
Northwest did a bang-up job. Even veteran Army flyers like to talk about how the line set up a complete route to Alaska, carried standout cargoes like: 1) a complete sawmill for Alaska Highway use; 2) an oversized six-wheel truck which was cut up by torch, crammed into the plane, put together at the destination by six welders who flew along...
...schedule to Europe in English, German, Italian and French, and to the Far East in English, Chinese, Dutch and Japanese. The Government's main contribution will consist of news programs. CIAA will continue to broadcast to South America in English, Portuguese, several dialects of Spanish. To do a bang-up job, the U.S. will need more transmitters than it now has (for instance, a battery of 16 beamed to Latin America alone). To supplement the 14 transmitters now in operation, Government officials would like to erect 22 more, will probably be content with an extra six, owing...
...front, the defense so far this year has been held together by a 210-pound Freshman, Frank Perantoni, who is playing center this year for the first time in his life, and doing a bang-up job of diagnosing and then smashing enemy plays...
Garland and Cummings, both right ends, turned in bang-up performances against the men of West Point Saturday, and Cowen, now ensconsed in the top fullback slot, was a full-time operative in the Crimson's puttering offense, so all three men are vital performers. Even if they are ready for the Princeton tussle, lack of weekday scrimmage will not make their tasks any easier...