Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there is the Air Medal Correspondent Teddy White won for "the courage and bravery he demonstrated when he flew important and dangerous missions" with the men of China-Burma- India. Command and the felt patch Bernard Hoffman wore sewed to the back of his shirt when he went along on the first B-29 raid on Japan, to identify himself to Chinese guerrillas in case his plane was forced down...
...Ends. Solution of the central issue-the make-up of a new Polish government-left some loose ends dangling. Loosest was Tomasz Arciszewski's London Government, now definitely in the discard. Poland's heroic, well-trained army in exile was still under the London Government's command, and still unreconciled to the changes at home...
...21st Bomber Command had shifted to smaller cities because it had run out of primary targets. In Washington last week,* the command's good-looking, serious, young (38) chief, Major General Curtis E. LeMay, explained: "We have destroyed the five largest cities in Japan and any one of these would be a major disaster. We have done this with less than half the strength we will have in the Pacific. We have the capacity to devastate Japan and we will do so if she does not surrender. Missions of 1,000 planes will come before long...
...Communists will boycott the P.P.C. because Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek has rejected their demands for "coalition government and other democratic reforms." (Chungking-Yenan unity negotiations broke down when Yenan refused to surrender control of its army to the National Government or to place it under the command of a U.S. Chief of Staff.) With an eye to future blame, Yenan added: The Kuomintang "proposes to use the P.P.C. and the constitutional convention as a preparation for civil war." (The Communists and the National Government have been carrying on a civil war almost uninterruptedly since...
...costumes that the cinemadapters of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come dreamed up is here. The flyer is wearing a "Strato-Suit" developed by the late Major John G. Kearby of the Air Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...