Word: ib
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army got around to making public last week something that its Aviation Cadets had known for months: its maximum dimensions for fighter pilots are 5 ft. 9 in. in bare feet, 170 Ib. on the scale. The Air Forces prefer candidates for fighter training who are a little smaller to start with. Fighter cockpits are built for nothing bigger...
Tall (6 ft. 3), hulking (250 Ib.) Reese Taylor, chief of WPB's Iron & Steel Branch finally got fed up. He had joined WPB late in May with high hopes: though steel allocation was a mess, he figured he could make sense of it, and he thought that his title carried enough authority to make his rulings stick. He went to work ably and thoroughly to find out where steel was going, why there wasn't enough. But forthright Reese Taylor reckoned without WPB's labyrinthine channels of authority. He did not know about the crew...
...flanges. We work on an average of 15 hours per day, seven days a week. I am 60 years old and my assistant is 79. He handles all flanges from 12-in. down, and I take them from 14 up to 30. Some of the castings weigh 365 Ib. We feel that owing to our age and the amount of work we are doing we are entitled to a pennant...
...Slender, underweight (132 Ib.), blue-eyed Henry L. Olson, 25, onetime farm boy, was invalided home last summer-weighing 112 pounds. He had been with the A.V.G. in Burma and China nearly a year, was twice shot down. He is Democratic candidate for Congress from the Ninth District-a vast area of wheatfields, Indian reservations, woods, lakes, muskeg...
...whole skin away without anesthetic. When his feet swelled painfully, the Jap doctor laughed and a Jap nurse futilely painted them with iodine. Removed to Kiangwan prison, he was put in solitary confinement in a 5-by-10-ft. cell. His weight had dropped from 160 to 80 Ib. When he could no longer walk on his twice-swollen feet, he was sent to Shanghai General Hospital under military guard, there had his toes amputated...