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...could be said to personify the U.S. Air Force, General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold was that man. He attended its birth, grew up with it, commanded it all through its great years in World War II. He was its first five-star general...
Died. General Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold, 63, wartime commanding general of the U.S. Army Air Forces; of a coronary occlusion; in Sonoma, Calif, (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Despite the whopping Kaiser debts to the U.S., RFC Chairman Harley Hise, a onetime California banker and minor Democratic politician, regarded the $44.4 million loans as "sound banking" action. Hise thought that there was "more than a reasonable chance that K-F can succeed...
...influenced, explained Harley Hise, by the dire alternatives for K-F if the money had been refused. Said he: K-F might have had to shut down, resulting in heavy unemployment. As it was, K-F last week had to lay off 5,000 workers anyway, while it tried to sell cars on hand. But Hise hoped that that was just a temporary situation and that "the loans will be repaid from earnings...
...June 1912, at a little airbase near Washington, D.C., 2nd Lieut. Henry Harley ("Hap") Arnold had a conversation that five-star General Arnold still likes to remember. Infantry Captain Billy Mitchell, 32, had just come back from Japan where he had had a look at the Japanese army. Did Lieut. Arnold know that the Japs had a bigger air force than the U.S.-ten planes to the U.S.'s total of four? Captain Mitchell was writing a paper for the War College on the future of military aviation, but since he had not yet learned to fly he needed...