Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miami, oldsters of the Veterans of Foreign Wars abdicated their leadership to the veterans of World War II, who make up 85% of the 1,250,000 members. As commander in chief the V.F.W. elected Clyde A. Lewis, 36-year-old ex-bomber pilot who served in the European theater. Two other World War II veterans were chosen senior and junior1 vice commanders, and heirs apparent to the top job in succeeding years...
Died. Starr Nelson, 84, oldest flying farmer in the U.S. (he got his pilot's license in 1941), who had logged over 1,000 hours in the air; of a heart attack; in Estes Park, Colo, (where he was to receive a fourth successive annual award at the National Flying Farmers convention...
True to cinemilitary tradition, the film shows how crisis and the call of duty can regenerate the most cynical heel. As the heel, Richard Widmark sinks so low that only something as drastic as a hurricane can wash his sins away. A Naval Reserve pilot, he flies a plane for dope smugglers. In his spare time he drinks intemperately, cruelly casts off his sweetheart (Veronica Lake) and makes passes at the wife (Linda Darnell) of an old Navy buddy (John Russell...
...assignment he had picked graduates of tough schools. Husky Bill Mooney, 30, an ex-tail gunner who was shot down over Germany, had been trained on the police beat of Chicago's rough & ready City News Bureau (TIME, June 6). So had Fred Bird, 28, a Pacific combat pilot. They left the city room and were swallowed up by Skid...
Canada's bid for first place in North American jet transportation began in mid-1946 when the Jetliner plans were inked onto drawing boards. Avro's general manager, Walter N. Deisher, a U.S.-born naturalized Canadian and ex-barnstorming pilot, set his men to work. What they gave him was a 60,000-lb., 822-ft.-long craft with a wing span...