Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Good and Not So Good. The 21st Bomber Command, at Saipan, had started later and gained faster. In its first month of operations, beginning Nov. 24, it had dropped more than 1,500 tons on Honshu, concentrating on aircraft factories around Tokyo and Nagoya. The Japs had new interceptors of improved types (known as Jack and Irving). U.S. airmen did not underrate the threat of these planes; the factories building them were top-priority targets. The Nakajima Company's great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st...
Still at large last week was Oswaldo Aranha, Brazil's great, pro-democratic foreign minister, who was driven from office last August by the Dictator's militarist henchmen. Still in command of his forces was popular Air General Eduardo Gomes, reputed presidential candidate of the underground opposition...
...always felt . . . that a leader is only as good as the men he leads. His statement of 'unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight came from the very bottom of Ike's heart. ... I know Ike. He is calm and sincere-he keeps calm command of the most complicated situations...
Admiral Ernest J. King, stiff-necked, closemouthed boss of the U.S. Navy, promised last week that in 1945 the Navy would speak for itself in deeds, not words. This was King's way of marking the third year of his command, in which he had seen the Navy become the world's mightiest. King had the power to back his promise...
...Army's globe-girdling Air Transport Command is going to cash in on its system of far-flung routes, in most cases exclusively its own. Beginning this week, it will sell rides to qualified civilians on a limited basis. The qualifications: the trips must be in the interests of the U.S., must not displace any military traffic, will not be allowed where commercial facilities are available. Fares will average between 12? and 13? a mile, substantially higher (as required by an Army ruling) than the standard commercial rate for overseas flying...