Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Uneasy Side. But the off-record remarks were more hopeful than assured. They remembered that Jake Fitch was still commanding minelayers and destroyers when early birdmen like Jack Towers (now deputy commander in the Pacific under Admiral Chester Nimitz) and Marc Mitscher (the Navy's No. 1 carrier task-force commander in the Pacific) were briskly testing the wings of the weapon destined to revolutionize naval warfare...
...Good Side. On Jake Fitch's credit side, naval aviators found this to say: although he was 46 when he went to Pensacola and won his wings, he caught on fast, for an aviation ancient. Since then barrel-chested, rough-&-ready Jake Fitch has served only in aviation jobs: he commanded the seaplane tenders Wright, Langley, served in the carrier Saratoga; commanded the carrier Lexington, and was aboard her as a Rear Admiral when she was torpedoed in the Coral...
...Jake Kilrain's dumbbells...
While test pilots were still wringing out the last of the bugs, Grumman Production Boss Leon A. Swirbul started to get the factory tooled. Three months after the first test flight, "Jake" Swirbul had rolled the first production model...
...left its billiard room. Instead of firing him, the manager ordered his proficient boy employe to play with well-paying guests, and he soon became the favorite of billiard-playing Actors Joseph Jefferson, Richard Mansfield, Willian Collier, Kate Emmett. He watched the distinguished and dazzling performances of billiard greats Jake Schaefer Sr. and Frank Ives. While still uniformed after his return from the Spanish-American War, Peterson took a beating from beknickered Willie Hoppe, but got his revenge later in an exhibition match (1906) when he was not so rusty...