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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Saipan fields, had already moved its headquarters to Guam. The 21st had far outgrown its elder brother, the 20th, based in India and China, and burly, black-jowled Curtis E. LeMay (at 38 the Army's youngest major general) had flown from Chengtu to Guam to take over. Haywood S. ("Possum") Hansell, a specialist in planning, was recalled to Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Closer To The Goal | 2/5/1945 | See Source »

...Irving). U.S. airmen did not underrate the threat of these planes; the factories building them were top-priority targets. The Nakajima Company's great Musashina factory on Tokyo's outskirts was hit three times before year's end. Said the 21st's commander, Brigadier General Haywood S. Hansell Jr., after the second assault: "We haven't destroyed the plant-not by a damn sight." After the third blow, he still was not satisfied. "Possum" Hansell's flyers had better luck against the two Mitsubishi plants at Nagoya. The Hatsudoki factory had 600,000 square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Target Japan | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

...boss of Saipan's newly announced 21st Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Beginning | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...said, are not practical. And Sidney Hillman warned: "Don't come along with any highfalutin organization that may work out 25 years from now, or may not." Murray and Hillman well knew how third parties have failed in the U.S.: the Populists, the Socialists, the Communists, "Big Bill" Haywood's Wobblies (the I.W.W.), whose theory of progress was to dynamite the social order; or even old Bob LaFollette's 1924 Progressives, the most successful of all but never strong enough nationally to dent the two-party system. They had seen the 1936-40 failure of John Lewis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The New Force | 7/24/1944 | See Source »

...from Brodey Brothers; and of illegally selling for non-defense uses 2,739 Ib. of aluminum to Farnsworth Telephone & Radio Co. (jukebox castings), 8,787 Ib. to 0. D. Jennings Co. (coin machines), 17,199 Ib. to Mills Novelty Co. (coin machines), 5,613 Ib. to Haywood Wakefield Co. (railroad-coach seat parts), 3,962 Ib. to Eastman Kodak Co. (Kodak parts), 3,149 Ib. to Filtex Corp. (vacuum-cleaner castings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: First Punishment | 10/27/1941 | See Source »

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