Word: commands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Photographic Commissar. Under command of Lieut. Donald Sheely, 34, the Minnesota-born, Annapolis-trained executive officer, Hale's motor whaleboat approached the trawler's starboard quarter, was waved to the portside where a ladder was lowered. Lieut. Sheely led his unarmed, three-man boarding party on deck without opposition. Aboard Novorossisk he found 48 men and six women, most of them wearing quilted, heavy-duty fishing garb, all obviously hard-working fishermen-all, that is, except for one commissar type in horn-rimmed glasses and brass-buttoned uniform, who photographed the boarding with an expensive camera...
...Distinguished Service Medal. With this parting gift, Ed Rawlings officially concluded 30 years of extraordinary service to the Air Force, went on his way at a youthful 54 to a civilian job as director and financial vice president of General Mills. Left behind: a Rawlings-rejuvenated Air Materiel Command, the global, 200,000-man complex charged with buying, storing, supplying and maintaining all equipment used by the Air Force...
...whose production abort will cost the Canadian taxpayers some $500 million all told, Canada will rely for antibomber defense during the next few years on U.S.-built Bomarc missiles. Canada will share the cost of launching sites with the U.S., control them jointly through the North American Air Defense Command. Later, NORAD-controlled U.S. fighters may be stationed in Canadian Arctic bases...
...member via a black and gold phone on his desk. In the Pentagon the world's largest switchboard handles 270,000 calls a day from more than 50,000 telephones. Two telephones (a red one connecting with U.S. bases, a black one with overseas bases) at Strategic Air Command headquarters would flash the first orders to U.S. bombers to answer an enemy attack...
...with pleasure in the form of such Fiskal attractions as "THE DEMON CAN-CAN . . . 100 BEAUTIFUL YOUNG LADIES . . . Contains Nothing Objectionable." Finally Fisk was probably the only colonel (of New York's 9th National Guard Regiment) and admiral (of his own steamboats) to wear diamond-studded uniforms and command the rare title of "Mr. Director-Admiral-Colonel...