Word: ferrymen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...June -see p. 32) the upstart Ferrying Command was getting all the priority it needed in men and materials. It also had a go-getting commander who has long had a reputation in the Army flying service for getting what he needs. The Ferrymen's boss, slim, 45-year-old Colonel Robert Olds, who has been flying for the Army since he was commissioned in 1917, today is as fine a big-ship handler as there is in The Air Forces. Accounted one of the flying service's white-haired boys, handsome Bachelor Olds has flown Flying Fortresses...
...year, at least 100 U.S. Army pilots have made the trip. In Great Britain, scores of U.S. Army fledglings are flying in their own school squadrons, learning all that World War II can teach them about combat piloting (nominally in "noncombat areas"). If some of Colonel Olds's ferrymen get similar experience in transatlantic bombery, nobody in The Army Air Forces will be surprised...
Winthrop faces two teams on the same par as the Adams oposition and the Puritans should also find the going fairly easy. Adams' recent 6 to 0 victory over the Ferrymen settled the comparative merits of the two league leaders...