Word: hornet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Before a hornet-mad Senate Agricultural Committee he stood by Leon Henderson, who thinks he has found a way to outwit the farm bloc. The way: 1) let farmers sell their loan wheat for what it will fetch in the market; 2) maintain such stringent retail ceilings on flour, for example, that the price of wheat will have to yield. These tricks neatly bypassed the parity-or-bust provisions farm-bloc Senators had carefully woven into the anti-inflation...
...answers to his pregnant questions were hinted at by Maine's Republican Senator Ralph Brewster, hornet-mad over the lack of a real unified command on the Arctic front. Said he: "Naval forces in the area are commanded from Seattle, while Army units are commanded from Anchorage, Alaska. That means the two responsible officers are 2,000 miles apart." The highest ranking military man on the Alaskan scene is Major General Simon Bolivar Buckner, who controls Army operations there, but when concurrent Navy sea or air action is needed, orders must come from Vice Admiral Charles Freeman...
...hard for the same kind of information. From surface vessels and his "stationary carriers" in the islands, his patrol planes ranged far & wide. This week the Jap broadcast some of his findings from Tokyo. Tokyo's story was that a heavy U.S. task force, centered on the carriers Hornet and Enterprise, was 580 miles east of the Solomon Islands, only 30 hours' steaming from the Coral Sea. If the Jap could be believed, the South Pacific lapped at the edges of a naval and air battle that could make the Coral Sea show look like a mere setting...
...used to command the Third Armored Division, will take over the newly formed Second Corps; chief of the First Corps will be tough, profane, gimlet-eyed Major General George S. ("Georgie") Patton Jr., variously known to his men as "Flash Gordon," "Old Blood and Guts," "the Green Hornet." Henceforth Generals Gillem and Patton will be No. 2 men to Armored Force Chief Major General Jacob Devers. For Georgie Patton, the promotion indicated that he was finally, after various ups & downs, in solid with the Army high command...
Abuilding are eleven other carriers with a plane capacity equal to or better than the Hornet's. How many the British and Japanese have under construction is not known. But it is known that the Japanese are busy as beavers turning out small carriers, which the Nipponese fancy. Balancing this activity, the U.S. Navy is doing a fast job of converting Maritime Commission cargo-passenger ships into auxiliary carriers. Already in service is the first, U.S.S. Long Island. Four of her sisters, originally completed as cargo ships, will be commissioned as auxiliary carriers within six months. Two more, still...