Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pair of enormous binoculars dangling from his neck, President Harry Truman trotted around Maryland's Andrews Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders for more...
...Long Range Proving Ground, said Brigadier General William L. Richardson, U.S.A.F., should have a launching site within the continental U.S. and a range at least 3,000 miles long. At intervals along the first 500 miles, the range should have check points. There will have to be "impact areas" too, where the missiles can land without killing innocent bystanders. The range should have a climate not too cold or rainy...
...remote control. No effective guided missiles are yet in existence, but Army, Navy, Air Force and the Research and Development Board are working hard-and optimistically-to perfect them. Last week they made a joint request of Congress for a Long Range Proving Ground. During 1949, said Air Force General Muir S. Fairchild, the U.S. will have a 500-mile missile ready for testing, with no place to test...
Nakedness Regained. The leading authority on everything Polynesian, Sir Peter has lived in tiny islands where the ancient customs are still in use. Helped by his ancestry and knowledge of the Maori language, he has been able to study and understand them as no mere white man could. In general, he believes, Polynesians are better off if they do not stray too far from ancient ways. Stimulating desire for imported foods, for instance, might prove disastrous. Their traditional houses are perfect for the climate and the life they lead...
...authentic celebrity. This tried & true device has been put to good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with his 1949 dinner to honor Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam only a few days...