Word: caps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Relaxing after the ardours of the review just passed, a Mil Sci man, whose name has not been revealed for four of giving information to the enemy, was unlucky enough to lose his cap off the Weld Boat House dock in the middle of the quarter to six rush hour yesterday afternoon...
Scheduled to start on the mound, Bud Mains, the Yardling fast-ball artist, will try to repeat the sixteenth inning victory he scored over North-eastern last week. To cap his hurling marathon, he knocked out five hits that afternoon, winning his own ball-game with a clean single...
...CAP's membership is now 43,000. Thirty thousand are pilots. The rest are mechanics, radiomen, observers, ground crews. Johnson thinks half the nation's 25,000 private planes are flying for CAP, the remainder available for emergencies. CAP has nine regions (corresponding to Army corps areas), 48 wings, one for each State. Regional commanders in the role of roving inspectors are being commissioned in the Army. Wings are subdivided into groups and squadrons. Women are eligible (but few have applied...
...CAP flying is no picnic. Members train hard. Of 230 curricular hours, 80 go into military discipline and drill, 150 into meteorology, navigation, crash procedure, flight missions. Men on active duty get only plane-operation expenses and sustenance, little or no compensation if they damage their ships. But they are stubborn; they want to fly and they...
...CAP has its troubles. CAA still harries it with regulations. But CAP is definitely an Army Auxiliary, the pilot reservoir its proponents always said it would be. Members become Air Corps instructors at Air Force schools, ferry military planes from factories to tactical and training bases...