Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...times the Army has seen him flustered was at a training field where he had arranged to meet his son, Bart Jr., a West Point undergraduate and now a student flyer. General Yount climbed from his command plane, walked down the customary line of post officers to shake hands. At the end, surprised, he asked: "Where's Bart...
...Mines might help find some untapped mineral resources. Then Donald Nelson, acting tougher than Washington had ever seen him, took Kaiser's proposal to the White House, convinced Frankling Roosevelt in one session that the man who had shown shipbuilders how to build ships should be allowed a flyer at plane making...
Robert Abercrombie Lovett, 46, won the Navy Cross as a flyer in World War I before he got his diploma at Yale. Son of a noted lawyer and railroader, he married the boss's daughter first, then-after proving his ability with other firms-became a partner in the old banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman & Co. Called to Washington in 1940 as special assistant to Secretary Stimson, then made Assistant Secretary of War for Air, he found what he now fondly calls "a hell of a mess." To Bob Lovett, more than any other one man, goes credit...
...surprise was burly, Carolina-mountain-born Colonel Caleb V. Haynes, boss of the bomber command. Colonel Haynes is 47, and a famous flyer...
Died. Captain H. Clyde Balsley, 48, early member of the Lafayette Escadrille and first U.S. flyer to be shot down in World War I; of complications from wounds received in 1916; in Los Angeles...