Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shaggy-browed "Bull" Halsey was moving on. In the "Admiral's Cabin," a roomy office on the second floor of a former French barracks in Noumea, there was handshaking and bluff well-wishing. Admiral William F. Halsey had just handed over a command that had once been the toughest in U.S. naval history. The now quiescent South Pacific was going to a top administrative officer-Vice Admiral John Henry Newton, formerly deputy commander of the Pacific Fleet. Said Halsey to his men: ". . . Carry on the smashing South Pacific tradition . . . and may we join up again farther along the road...
Farther Along. Halsey's new job was the command of the Third Fleet. This fleet had served under him in the Solomons, but now, presumably, would be considerably reinforced. Said Admiral Nimitz, the Third Fleet will operate "the same way that the Fifth Fleet is operating under the command of Admiral Spruance" (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
Married. Mimi Chandler, 17, torch-singing Hollywood starlet (And the Angels Sing), daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler; and Army Ferry Command Major John Cabell, 27, cousin of Novelist (James) Branch Cabell; in Los Angeles...
...applicant; 2) whether the traffic can bear the operation of more than one line to a route. Established domestic carriers will have good talking points in their war experience-all the big ones and many of the smaller have reaped much experience flying the world for the Air Transport Command...
...last eight months, Sikorsky has produced 30 helicopters for the Materiel Command of the Army Air Forces. The ships have been tested in Burma, evacuating wounded from the jungles; in patrol work along the Atlantic coast; in Alaska...