Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Academy's alumni. They are a powerful group and most of them have spiritually never left the reservation. Of 18,000 who have graduated since the Academy's founding, 15,000 are still alive (only some 2,400 had graduated by 1900). Among them are the commander in chief, U.S. Fleet, the chief of the Navy's Bureau of Personnel, who are directly responsible for Academy policies. (Jake Fitch only administers.) Academy alumni are admirals and captains-the holders of almost all the worthwhile jobs in the Navy-who have learned new doctrines fighting World...
...Priority," was the verdict of the Air Transport Command on William Yandell Elliott, professor of Government, who instead of arriving at Cambridge in time to give his opening lecture on Plato to his Gov 1 classes, found himself stranded in Plato's home town...
...Through the Jap code (which the U.S. had in its pocket before Pearl Harbor), President Franklin Roosevelt and the Washington high command knew, hours before the attack, that Japan was breaking off negotiations, that this meant a surprise attack somewhere in the Pacific...
...Hughes and Frye had a chance to test the bird they had hatched. In the spring of 1944 they flew a Constellation across the continent in six hours, 58 minutes; another flew from New York to Paris in 14 hours, twelve minutes for the Army's Air Transport Command...
Next week the Army will blaze another trail. The Air Transport Command will start a weekly round-the-world air service from Washington, D.C., via the Azores, Cairo, India, China, Guam, Honolulu and San Francisco. The globe-girdling will be done in Douglas 40-passenger C-54s, will take 151 hours. Fare for civilian passengers (who must have military certificates of necessity...