Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...purposes have been in large measure accomplished-but only in the face of an exasperating rear-guard action by RFC officials who are still fighting the war with peacetime red tape, corporate technicalities, and . . . unnecessary caution. . . . All this, and I want to emphasize it, is bureaucracy at its worst; it is utterly inexcusable in a nation...
Navy men aboard kept mum. But Maritime Commission's vice chairman, Rear Admiral Howard L. Vickery, who was also aboard, beamed at the ship's performance. The Navy has stated its objections to the ships: too slow for most combat jobs, too short to launch their planes on calm days, except with catapults. But the ships are fast enough to keep up with merchant convoys, to spread an umbrella of planes over them to fight U-boats. On their ability to do that well, the President and Kaiser have gambled. Only the Battle of the Atlantic can give...
...They earned the respect of all the officers and men that they contacted," said Lieut. Colonel Fergusson's official report. "Their stories vere the result of firsthand information secured under fire and not concocted in the safety of some rear area...
...breeze stirred. The hot Georgia air in Fort Benning's Theater No. 4, Harmony Church area, was heavy, and faintly scented with sweat. At the rear of the long, wooden building a dozen nervous girls fidgeted in their best cotton dresses, a wilted handful of tired parents watched with quiet pride. Slowly and earnestly the 159 men repeated the oath of office, then marched forward one by one to receive commissions in the Army...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes...