Word: pan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
Whether he liked it or not - and from dead-pan LeMay there was no sign - he had become a staff officer. One consolation was that at 38, LeMay, already the youngest major general in the U.S. Army in World War II, probably could look for ward to getting his third star. He is younger than any of his young wing commanders...
...Pan American Airways, pioneer on the international airways, was in a mood for fighting last week. In Washington, it chucked an indignant brief onto the Civil Aeronautics Board desk. Its charge: gross Government favoritism in granting Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. and American Airlines, Inc. postwar transatlantic routes. The protest was polite, but by mentioning Plane-Builder Howard Hughes, it left the door ajar enough to drag in T.W.A.'s president, jowly, hard-flying Jack Frye, and his friend, Brigadier General Elliott Roosevelt...
...Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying pan...
Competition. Pan American Airway's monopoly in the Pacific ran into stormy weather last week. In a report, Civil Aeronautics Board examiners recommended that United Air Lines, second biggest U.S. domestic line, be given a route from the co-terminals of San Francisco and Los Angeles to Hawaii. When & if CAB finally grants the route, United will fly two round trips a day with 50-passenger...