Word: commander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Womanly Infiltration. Her organization was not autonomous, and Miss Mac herself had no command as such; as director of the WAVES she merely stood in the background, giving advice and, like a wise spinster aunt, smoothing things out. Her WAVES were a womanly infiltration into certain spots where they could pick up, straighten out and perform some chores even better than...
...citation continued: "During initial assault phases Lt. Seaman efficiently co-ordinated action of his command with those of Naval Combat Demolition Units, Pontoon Causeway Units, and the off-shore traffic control unit to provide for the prompt clearing, organization and efficient operation of his beach areas . . . (Lt. Seaman) contributed materially to the success of the invasion and to proper maintenance of the Allied Armies in Southern France...
Every 15 'minutes a plane operated by the Army's indefatigable Air Transport Command lumbers free of the earth and begins a trans-Pacific flight. In one recent eight-day period these planes hauled 18.4 million lbs. of cargo over A.T.C.'s 42,000-mile Pacific airways. Passenger and cargo volume is three times that of a year...
...ocean-flying airmen, one mental hazard is the fear of being trapped in a submerged plane after a crash landing at sea-as many an airman has been trapped and drowned. Last week the Army's Air Technical Service Command announced an ingenious device to help trapped flyers: an oxygen mask for breathing under water while they fight clear of the plane...
...Army's Air Technical Service Command: a rapid photographic printing paper called "Gasparcolor," which is sensitive to red, green and blue light in a single exposure, should make production of colored prints from colored transparencies easy in home darkrooms...