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Scott believes that the girl (she finally married him) was the most important influence in his career as a flyer. "For if any one thing more than another," says Scott, "enabled me to meet the Japanese fighter pilots in the air and shoot them down while I escaped, it was an American Girl. . . " I don't know exactly what democracy is, or the real commonsense meaning of a republic. But as we used to talk things over in China, we all used to agree that we were fighting for The American Girl. She to us was America, Democracy, Coca...
David Edward Rickenbacker, 18-year-old son of the famed Army flyer, joined the Marines in Manhattan, said he still hoped to get into the Air Corps but had no ambition to fly. He dotes on engines, wants to work with a ground crew. His father, said he, "used some pretty colorful language" when he first learned his son was snooting the Army, but finally took it like...
...first, a flyer, has not been announced...
Farm equipment and manpower shortages, gas rationing and a host of other wartime worries have put some brakes on the farmland boom market up to now. The real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...
This was no cat-&-dog wrangle. Behind the potent new committee (The Airlines Committee on International Routes) was the tremendous prestige-and smart flyer's brains-of the Army Air Forces' chief, General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Ten days ago, General Arnold hastily called a hush-hush meeting in Washington of the U.S. airlines which operate routes for the Army's world-straddling Air Transport Command. (Pan American was included.) General Arnold advised them to take steps...