Word: bushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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William G. Bush, Sacramento. Allen N. Croft, Stockton. William S. Parks, Los Angeles. William J. Willis, Holtville...
...fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
...knows all this better than the man who led U.S. science to war: Dr. Vannevar Bush, wartime head of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. But Dr. Bush is hopeful that things are changing. In the first issue of Physics Today, he declares that U.S. science is now putting less emphasis on "practical" work and digging intofundamentals...
Writes Dr. Bush: "It might well have been expected that there would be a clamor, after the war, for intense support by Government of all forms of gadgeteering...
...Bush points to the G.I. bill of rights as one indication of progress: "The returning veterans ... have not demanded a welter of practical applied courses. In the field of science in particular, there has not been a rush to courses in gadgeteering, rather a wholesome inclination to try to get to the bottom of things scientific...