Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was widely and correctly interpreted as a crack at Home Minister Baron Kiichiro Hiranuma, most powerful conservative leader in Japan but a notorious conference-holder. When the speech was printed in pamphlets for distribution, the Home Ministry promptly seized them...
Carrier-based Navy planes will practice in joint maneuvers this summer with the Army's crack First Division and the First Marine Division. These divisions make up the No. 1 U.S. task force, have first call on experienced men and new equipment. Commanding both is a parboiled Marine, Major General Holland ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, who will know what to do if his two divisions suddenly have to take on a vital task in World...
Last week, while the wind whipped in briskly from the Pacific, she did what her makers knew she could do. Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling...
...west-coast ports, making their way to Asia. Pilots to fly the P-4Os and ground crews to maintain them will soon be scattered over southwest China from the Burma border to Chungking. These pilots were not just a crew of barnstormers turned warstormers. They had been, until recently, crack U.S. Army Air Corps pilots. To take on this combat job they had been allowed to resign their Air Corps posts, enlist in the Chinese Air Force on the understanding that their U.S. Army seniorities would not be affected. Another somewhat whimsical technical understanding is that they will not "take...
Born Lou Rapaport in New Haven, 32-year-old Barry Wood is, like Rudy Vallee and Lanny Ross, one of Yale University's gifts to popular music. He took his Ph.B. in 1930, was a crack relay swimmer and water poloist. Recently Barry Wood was named nation's "Sweater Boy"-by two knitting works, in a belated effort to right the unbalance created by Hollywood's sweater girls...