Word: jump
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Negroes were put in combat units. The exceptions had good records: the 99th Pursuit Squadron, flying in Tunisia and Sicily (TIME, Sept. 20), the 93rd Infantry Division, fighting on Bougainville (TIME, May 29). Three weeks ago, at Fort Benning, Ga., a company of black soldiers made their first "combat" jump. They were the Army's first all-Negro parachute company. But Negro soldiers know that these are exceptions: 70% of Negroes are service troops...
...term's squad, including Captain Mark Tuttle. crack miler from the NROTC, V-12cr Earl Swett, who runs the two-mile distance, civilians Glenn Schultz and Frank Cawley, both of whom do the 440, V-12cr Jack Noble, a half-miler, and versatile Cliff Wharton, who handles the broad jump, high jump...
...favorite stories of the hard-boiled 101st is about Don Pratt's first parachute jump, when the general's husky young aide was assigned to jump with him and pick up the pieces. General Pratt landed without a scratch and picked up the aide, who had broken...
Maier's plan derives from experiments which upset orthodox psychological notions. He forced rats to jump at one of two differently marked cards, one of which led to food while the other only bruised the rats' tender snouts. Then he switched the cards. Result: the rats became wildly neurotic. When repeatedly frustrated, a rat would throw itself blindly again & again at an unyielding card, even though there was food in plain sight beside...
...press conference the onetime Iowa farm boy quietly gave newsmen the facts. The U.S. wants to jump its peacetime foreign air operations from the 80,000 route miles already approved to 140,000. Already on hand were 100 applications from private systems-some of them still unformed-which want to get a piece of this postwar business. After consulting many Government agencies, and with the approval of Franklin Roosevelt, CAB had worked out 20 tentative routes. On a great map, CABoss Pogue traced some of the globe-girdling lines over which U.S. airlines plan...