Word: pigeonly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army had its own pigeon-sized air-cargo system. In 1941 it carted 4,000 tons of airplane parts to & from tactical fields and its depots. But in the U.S. long-range air freighting was an uncharted stratum, even after the Army established a ferry service to deliver combat planes abroad. As late as last autumn only a minuscule 4% of the Army's planes consisted of troop and cargo carriers. The Navy was tardier...
Deglamorization of the week was performed by an alert news photographer at Sun Valley, who caught the handsome face of Cinemactress Norma Shearer registering desolation after she had missed a clay pigeon...
Faith & Works. For this favorable situation, pious Nazis thanked their landlubber Führer, who had built ships when Goring was bawling for more airplanes and Guderian for more tanks. But they also thanked a short-legged pouter pigeon of a man named Erich Raeder...
...helping the student to find what specialized openings and possible commissions he is eligible for, the service of the Bureau to the individual is obvious. At the same time it can be a valuable contribution to the present cry for an efficient utilization of manpower. By sifting and pigeon-holing the chaos of facts and specialized needs in the various branches, the War Service Information Bureau is a potential aid to both student and war effort. It is to be hoped that the authorities will keep the value of this service in sight, and be free with the needle...
Back of the line Russia had some of her best military brains at work. So had Germany. Adolf Hitler had pigeon-holed his intuition and called back his Marshals. Walther von Brauchitsch was in conference with him and ready to go back into service. So were Bock, Rundstedt and desert-fighter Erwin Rommel, called home from Africa to confer on the synchronization of Germany's Russian and Near Eastern drives. While the new battles were planned, the old battle went on. And all along the front, in windrows, lay the sightless dead...