Word: gliderfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young Cripps was an avid horseman and hunter, but his main interests were scientific. At 17 he built and flew a glider. At 18 he received the rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...
Sued for Divorce. Army Glider Pilot Jackie Coogan, 28; by Flower Parry Coogan, 20, his second wife (first was Betty Grable); after 16 months; in Los Angeles...
...Glider Replacement Center Albuquerque...
...army unique in U.S. history. Its booted paratroops, glider squadrons, armored army-within-an-army, are new on the U.S. scene (and newer, perhaps, than they need have been if the Army's pre-1940 command had not been approximately as sleepy as the country was). It is an army created with phenomenal speed from the embryo Regular Army...
Less kiddish Jackie Coogan, 27, was graduated as a glider pilot, made a staff sergeant, at the Army Air Forces training field at 29 Palms, Calif...