Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Newsmen promptly concluded that Crommelin was getting a sly pat on the back from the top command. But Navy Secretary Francis Matthews hit the ceiling. In a matter of hours, he ordered Crommelin shifted to a captain's billet in the air-warfare division...
...general hopes soon to export his cabs all over the Orient. "I will succeed," he admits, "because I am alert. I had to be to become a lieutenant general. After all, Japan spent 500 million yen on my education, counting the cost of the planes I lost in my command and the training of the men killed in them...
...nine cylinders can store 4,000 numbers of 16 digits each and 4,000 coded "commands." In response to the proper command (either remembered or coming from outside), the numbers are "read off" electrically. They zip through the machine as coded electrical pulses. Basically the process is similar to a man's pulling a telephone number out of his memory and spinning it on a dial...
...from Manhattan on his trip last week, Parker and Stannard went along to show him the ropes. As their Quebec Airways DC-3 winged its way over the rugged bush country of Quebec, it crashed into a hill. All on board-23-were killed. With a top echelon of command wiped out, shocked Kennecott directors still had not decided this week on a new boss for the company...
Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...