Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talk Japs out of their caves, interviewed prisoners to get information. As their worth was proved, they had gradually advanced from rear-area assignments to the front lines, where they were in double jeopardy-from the enemy, and from fellow G.I.s who mistook them for the enemy. The Army Command is convinced that Japan could not have been defeated so quickly without the Nisei...
President Truman had just given him one of the nation's three most important command jobs: chief of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Wasn't everyone surprised that the announcement had come so soon? "Tooey" Spaatz, amiable man of few words, continued to shave, back turned. When would he officially take over? "About Feb. 15." Was it possible he still might enter Pennsylvania politics? "I might have if they hadn't offered me Arnold...
Peerless Paper. Today the infant of 1846 is a giant of Fleet Street, fifth in circulation (with 1.5 million) among London's nine "national" newspapers, and known as the highbrow of the mass-readership field. Heading its high command is dry, aging Chocolate Tycoon Laurence J. Cadbury, whose father bought shares in 1901 (at David Lloyd George's behest) to keep them out of the clutches of Boer War imperialists. As chairman of Daily News, Ltd., Quaker Cadbury, a publisher without a peerage, leaves its operations to a devoutly Liberal triumvirate: Sir Walter Layton, quondam Cambridge...
Returning veterans who cast an interested eye at the Field Artillery commissions offered by the College's newly revived ROTC unit get special attention from Colonel Mark McClure, head of the Military Science Department and until recently a Brigadier General in command of the 95th Division artillery in France and Germany...
...idea of the airline was Earl Slick's. He had mixed flying lessons with his wildcatting, had been a wartime pilot in the Air Transport Command. Not long after he became a civilian last December, he heard that nine surplus Army Curtiss Commandos were up for sale. In Washington, he walked into RFC's surplus-plane division one day at i p.m., came out at 1:15 owning the planes. The price...