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...Army Commander of the Hawaiian Department, Lieut. General Delos Carleton Emmons, 53, Chief of the Air Force Combat Command, a flyer since 1917 (4,000 hours plus), a hard-riding perfectionist, tough as parachute silk. This appointment significantly put a flyer in command of all Army forces in Hawaii...
...Hawaiian Air Force Commander, Brigadier General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, a spit-&-polish, sky-ripping flight officer, part Osage Indian (Oklahoma), flyer since 1920, chief of Third Interceptor Command...
...present Assistant Chief of Naval Operations, an exacting, reserved veteran. The promoted admirals were "taut ship" commanders (meaning rigid disciplinarians, as opposed to "happy ship" officers). Air-power exponents were speechless with happiness: for the first time in wartime U.S. naval history, the top man was a flyer...
...Bright James S. Adams, 44, was elected president of Standard Brands (Fleischmann's Yeast, Chase & Sanborn coffee). A flyer in World War I, he was for six years an adman (Benton & Bowles), six years a building-materials man (Johns Manville), two years a soapman (Colgate-Palmolive-Peet), seven months a $1-a-year man (OPM's auto and paper divisions). Standard Brands has been aging rapidly since depression times (1940 profits were 35% below 1932) and Adams' youth may prove as useful as his varied experience...
...Naval Flyer Lieutenant Harman T. Utter, who attacked three Japanese fighters alone. He shot down one, the other two fled. He landed on the sea with engine trouble, taxied to land fixed his engine, returned to his base the next...