Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European theater. He also had in Curt LeMay a brilliant tactical commander; LeMay's know-how in Pacific battle and B-29 operations had to be spread through the enlarged strategic air forces. So while LeMay's officers grumbled a bit at a good man and a crack leader being taken from tactical command, their black-browed boss was moved...
Maintenance was LeMay's fetish ("you can't drop bombs from a grounded plane"). When he noticed the ground force overworked in one group, while another group's men were comparatively idle, he pooled all the maintenance forces within each wing. A crack pilot with an exceptional feel for mechanic's work, he set up a system of specially skilled roving workers, for speedier, better repairs...
...plant that needed careful defense. Among the most vulnerable were the flimsily protected airplane plants along the eastern and western coasts. They were unexpendable and immovable; their nakedness demanded some sort of wrapping. So the Corps of Engineers put to work a motley legion of industrial designers, billboard painters, crack Hollywood illusionists and serious artists...
...will become superintendent of the Naval Academy, where one of his first big chores will be to bring flight training to the school and make its graduates as air-wise as West Point's; sardonic Vice Admiral "Genial John" Hoover, 58, one of the Navy's crack administrators, who gets the staff job left vacant by Jack Towers; Rear Admiral Louis E. Denfeld, 54, who will be taken from command of a battleship division and given an unannounced post ashore-probably Chief of the Bureau of Personnel, one of the most worrisome posts in Washington...
...assuming all, the Viceroy had absolved even the Moslem League for its part in wrecking the conference. The door to reconciliation was thus left open a crack...