Word: r
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mistake-changes in identifying marks. Both the Navy and the Air Force now use the symbol F for their new jet fighters. Other new Air Force designations: A for amphibious, H for helicopter, R for reconnaissance and photographic, S for search and rescue, T for trainer...
...Volumes. Earlier in the week, the President had dispatched his plane, The Independence, to Venezuela for President Rómulo Gallegos and his wife, was on hand to welcome them when they arrived at Washington's National Airport. Along with their wives, Presidents Truman and Gallegos posed for pictures on the new White House balcony. At an official White House dinner, the President presented Gallegos (whom he called Venezuela's "greatest modern litterateur") with the Legion of Merit. Gallegos replied that he was "proud to shake the hand of so sincere and simple a man as the President...
After a seven-day flying trip to Greece, ex-OSS General William J. Donovan announced that the Greek "authorities are handling the case satisfactorily." Some U.S. newsmen, in Greece when George Polk died, were not so sure. Neither was CBS. Three top CBS staffers (Edward R. Murrow, Howard K. Smith and Don Hollenbeck) broadcast a progress report on an independent investigation now being conducted by two CBS legmen...
...Novelist Rómulo Gallegos Freire became the first popularly elected President...
Voter's Plot. In Memphis, Judge R. G. Kinkle thought & thought, finally announced his decision that a man who owns a cemetery plot cannot properly be considered a property owner...