Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a jungle-slogging G.I., Bridgeport Brass Co.'s DDT bug bomb was almost as good a friend as his rifle. When the war ended, the company dressed up its Aer-a-sol (DDT expelled by Freon gas) dispenser in civilian clothes, and struck a retail bonanza. Last week Bridgeport Brass thought it saw more pay dirt; it planned to apply the Aer-a-sol principle to dozens of other products...
...Civilian Control. The simple, 700-word occupation statute should have given the Germans a number of things to be grateful for. Along with the statute, the Western allies confirmed a previous agreement to stop most of the dismantling of German industrial plants, and to admit the West German state as a full-fledged partner in the Marshall Plan organization. Once the state comes into being, Military Government will end. Some occupation forces, however, will remain. The allies will retain certain key powers of control, to be vested in three civilian high commissioners. They will completely control "disarmament. . . demilitarization . . . related fields...
...Love. Test Pilot Yeager knew all this when he prepared to fly the Air Force's odd little Bell speedster. He took over the X-1 from a civilian test pilot, Chalmers ("Slick") Goodlin, who had flown the ominous little ship at Mach .8 (eight-tenths of the speed of sound). Goodlin was offered a fat reward (a rumored $150,000) for flying it at full speed, but he did not like the terms. Another civilian pilot had a try at the X-1 and hastily bowed out. Then the Air Force took charge and gave...
...altitudes. As they streak down to destruction, telemetering instruments report their performance by radio. After the airplane itself is assembled, the "contractor's" test pilots have the ticklish job of easing it into the air. In the case of high-speed aircraft, this is generally done at Muroc; civilian pilots like the field as much as the Air Force does. Untested aircraft are shipped all the way to Muroc from the Atlantic Coast...
Over & above these professional qualifications, Colonel Boyd demands that the test pilots have agreeable personalities. They are, he feels, ambassadors of the Air Force to civilian engineers and designers. They must criticize airplanes sharply, point out defects, suggest changes. Everybody is happier if such work can be done tactfully. Colonel Boyd is skillful at selecting his ambassadors: one notable fact about them is that they have pleasant personalities (another is that the married ones have pretty wives...