Word: cochran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Honor guest at a newspapermen's jamboree in his home town of Erie, Pa. was Lieut. Colonel Philip G. Cochran. With him was his old Ohio State University chum, Cartoonist Milton Arthur Caniff, who put him into Terry and the Pirates as long-jawed, rip-roaring Flip Corkin. Thirty-three-year-old Fighter Pilot Cochran said that people were always asking him about his girl in the cartoon (Taffy, now No-Name Miss). Of a successful raid he said: "I figured that if I tossed the general staff around some and blew up their headquarters ... it would delay them...
Then all trooped off to the flying line, where 43 new pilots of the WAFS (Women's Army Ferrying Service) got their wings pinned on their blouses by their taffy-haired director, Jacqueline Cochran...
Little Girls, Big Ships. Already discarded by military airmen is the notion that women airmen are good only for flying light craft like Piper Cubs and Aeroncas. Featured airwomen like Jackie Cochran long ago kicked the theory on the shins by flying such "hot" craft as the Seversky P-35, the Lockheed Hudson (one of which she helped push across the Atlantic). The WAFS' new graduates had proved it in the mass. They had flown everything from grasshoppers to snappy two-engined Cessna...
Historians of American business have consistently elected to follow one of two extreme paths. They have either been disciples of Ida Tarbell and the muckrakers, or they have trod mincingly behind the apologetic steps of Arundel Cotter's infamous "U.S. Steel: A Coporation with a Soul." Messers. Cochran and Miller, instructors at New York University, have instead attempted to write a chronicle of businesses as an ever-expanding institution. Their task is history, not propaganda...
...trainer for the woman flyers pool, Jackie Cochran works under Colonel Luke Smith, chief of Army Air Forces individual training, has no connection with the WAFS except to supply pilots. The first Cochran class opens in a fortnight, probably in Texas...