Word: controlman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rash of Jokes. Inevitably, the hostesses have become known among Bonded birdmen as Pucci Galores. And the multicolor fleet has raised a rash of jokes, such as the one about the airport controlman who radioed a Braniff pilot: "O.K., dearie, take...
...Chin was not the first "human bomb" to be operated on successfully by American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...