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...disinterment for transfer to Finschhafen was given to native labor, but American G.I.s had to load them on the ship. . . . As the result of this experimental trip an order was issued that no Coast Guard-manned Army ship should load this type of cargo again because of the hazard to the health, well-being and morale of the crew...
...York Times's Allison Danzig claims to be one of them. Of a swanky Long Island doubles tourney he wrote last week: "In the opening game [John Hay Whitney] . . . standing near the penthouse on the service side . . . drove the ball into the winning gallery on the hazard side for the deciding point. ... In the final game ... he boasted the ball to the main wall to find the dedans on his return of service. Then, changing sides to play off chases, he found the nick no less than three times with his service. The crowd shook its head in amazement...
Eventually, Congress killed the extreme proposal, contented itself with limiting flight pay to officers whose duties require regular flying and those who must fly to retain "primary technical skill." By Jan. 3, the War and Navy Departments must submit recommendations for revising all forms of hazard pay, including that given to submariners (also 50% added). The brass would like to save their own flight skins, but may have to sacrifice some in a compromise to let the hard-flying lower ranks keep theirs intact...
...means certain which side of this American argument will win. But if I have to hazard a prophecy, it will be the pessimistic one that the wrong side will win. They have, after all, the strong force of popular instinct on their side, while their opponents have only logic...
...hazard in that quarter-deck doctrine was that reactionary thinking in post-World War II might set in, not only among the battleship admirals (who actually were in retreat) but among the airmen. Men like Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, and even younger aviators like Rear Admiral Arthur Radford might become wedded to the carrier, which had spearheaded the war.* Not to be overlooked by prophets is the fact that after World War I the radicals thought the naval weapon of the future was the submarine. In 1913 amiable, conservative Admiral Richard S. Edwards...