Word: halseyisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About 200 planes were credited to pilots from the Mountbatten, MacArthur and Chennault commands, but carrier-based navymen of Vice Admiral Marc A. Mit-scher's task force, from Halsey's Third Fleet, went on a more destructive ram page. In seven carrier raids from Aug. 30 to Sept. 25 (four of them over the Philip pines) 1,101 Jap planes were destroyed. Significantly, Halsey's fourth raid, an nounced last week, was met by only seven Jap planes in the central Philippines. Left on the ground for Marc Mit-scher's pilots to destroy were...
...carrier task-force commander of Halsey's Third Fleet, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher leads more big flattops and escorting warships than any other man in history. In the midst of one great air battle over the Philippines, Mitscher ordered one baby carrier and a couple of destroyer escorts to detach themselves from his huge armada and go off on an errand. The captain of the baby radioed to Mitscher: "Am proceeding in accordance with your orders. You are now on your...
...Halsey, Stuart bid topped by some $1,400,000 the competing bid submitted by Great Northern's customary bankers-Morgan, Stanley...
This distributing power enables Halsey, Stuart to bid confidently at prices too high for others. In the Great Northern deal no other houses are associated with Halsey, Stuart. But the Chicago firm took about one-third the risk to itself with a commitment of $32,600,000 as compared to the next highest commitments which were...
...biggest issue ever offered at competitive bidding, Banker Stuart is now working on a still larger deal. In October, the Commonwealth Edison Co. may offer $178,000,000 of bonds, terms of which are likely to be negotiated privately between the company and its traditional banking house-Halsey, Stuart...