Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...block of ice in the Arctic. Getting the news this time required extraordinary speed. From his post in Anchorage, Correspondent Bill Smith flew to Fairbanks, waited in 10° weather for the arrival of part of the I.G.Y. team. From Boston, Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens drove to Westover Air Force Base to meet returning Strategic Air Command rescue planes. Smith buttonholed a group of the rescued airmen, got his interview, put it on the wires to New York. Correspondent Mehrtens was invited to dinner with the rescue crews at Westover's Officers' Club. Her reporting was finished after midnight...
...veteran of Air Force survival work, Captain James F. Smith, military commander of the team, kept a close watch on the melting mass, issued a series of radio reports to Ladd Air Force Base in Fairbanks, Alaska...
Down on a Band-Aid. The rescue alert flashed within minutes. Air Forcemen, by now well oriented to the peculiarities of polar geography, knew that they could make a rescue just as fast from Strategic Air Command bases in Newfoundland and Greenland as from Alaskan Command points. From SAC's Thule Air Base in Greenland, cover planes flew across the earth's top to circle Ice Skate and keep in touch lest the camp homer beacon fail. At Harmon A.F.B. in Newfoundland, SAC put on standby two crack C-123J crews who were familiar with ice landings. This...
Three years ago the U.S. Air Force Academy was only a piece of level ground at Colorado Springs. The student body was located temporarily at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base as the football team took on freshman and minor-college opposition with indifferent success. But last week the academy's Falcons found themselves in astonished possession of an unbeaten record in big-time competition, aspirations of national ranking. Reason: a 37-year-old coach named Ben Martin...
...example, while most other airlines were shunning New York's newly built La Guardia field in 1938 because they did not want the bother and expense of moving from Newark, Smith saw that the shift closer to Manhattan would improve service, switched American's New York base to La Guardia. New York City was so glad to get American that the gamble paid off. Smith got a rock-bottom rental, and the other airlines were eventually forced to follow, but at much higher rates. When World War II began, Smith resigned from American to become an Army...