Word: davenport
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Team B: le Davenport, lt Hibbard, lg Row, c Anderson, rg Grunig, rt Stannard, re Putnam, bb Lyman (Goldthwait), tb Wilson, wb O'Donnell, fb Johnson...
Team C: le Davenport, lt Sattuck, lg Aldrich, c Strezynski, rg George, rt Fisher, re Tatton, bh Kamp, tb Chase, wb MacLellan, fb Sosman...
...Warren Carstensen, Peter E. Caron, Bradley A. Cameron, Lloyd Duxbury, Emmons S. Ellis, Norman Feinberg, Charles L. Costenhofer, Richard P. Gardiner, Jerry Gottschalk, Augustus L. Hemenway, Charles J. Hubbard, Harold Hinton, Vincent W. Jones, Jr., Gilbert King, Jr., John R. Leekeigh, Thaddeus E. Mroz, Philip L. Ruppenthal, Richard R. Davenport, Charles P. Stewart and Sidney O. Smith...
...suggest the outlines of a democratic solution FORTUNE has an editorial signed by Russell W. Davenport. Not all will agree with his proposals for insuring, under the democratic system, that a world of plenty is realized-the creation of an area of freedom, the socialization of large parts of the economy and the freezing of others for venture and risk. But few are likely to question that the war is a war to determine who is to run the future and under what organization of life the future is to be run. The editorial concludes...
...pilots a year. Quickly the figure was upped to 7,000. Before the Air Corps got a good start it was lifted again, this time to 12,000. That meant stepping up the schooling about ten to one. The job went to husky, squash-nosed Brigadier General Davenport Johnson, overseas pilot of World War I and a flying veteran of Black Jack Pershing's expedition after Villa in 1916. By the time Johnny Johnson had got on the job, the Air Corps had started revising its whole training scheme. It had given primary training (first ten weeks...