Word: jouett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week in Washington, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce convention was told the official score to date on the aircraft industry's efforts in national defense, and its plans for future production. The speaker, Colonel John H. Jouett, president of the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce, and a West Pointer, knew what he was talking about. Excerpts...
...traveled with him scores of thousands of miles. Piped aboard the Tuscaloosa, he posed for the usual pictures, standing at the rail; soon tired, he rested in a chair, bundled against the damp, cold day. Three wire-service reporters* trode up the gangplank of the destroyer Lang; the destroyer Jouett stood by. Ten minutes after the 21st salute-gun had boomed, the three warships slipped out into the Gulf of Mexico. As shipmates the President took no politicians, no bigwigs, no intimate advisers, but three men who were once described at the White House as "the only three fellows around...