Word: scans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night, in the utter blackout, people stay in their homes, listening to the endlessly patrolling planes of an Army & Navy grimly determined never again to be caught off guard. By day they scan the blue distance, watch each wisp of smoke that trails along the horizon, hoping it brings news from the U.S.-not from Japan...
Canada's own Air Marshal and World War I Ace, William Avery ("Billy") Bishop, has a role to play in the picture: awarding wings to 1,000 R.C.A.F. cadets. They are an international force (Australians, New Zealanders, Americans, etc.), and the camera pauses to scan their faces: young, fresh, earnest, consolingly cocksure...
Although its title "Maids We Have Known and Loved" was harmless enough, it would be futile to defend the article. According to its author's own statement in "Scan," the Smith newspaper, it is definitely in poor taste. The maids were certainly justified in protesting. But the logic of the college in considering the magazine as "an official Smith publication," and on that ground ordering its suspension until a new board is elected, seems to us to be faulty...
After the Free-French navy was organized by three men in a room in the Dorchester Hotel in London, Blatson was made second in command of the Surcouf. He had never served in a and before and only 35 percent of the enlisted personell were men who had scan service in submarines...
...also usable for Navy light craft. Farthest flung will be Ecuador's Galapagos Islands, astride the Equator, 1,000 miles from the Big Ditch. There, in a twelve-island archipelago fantastically storied as a haven for pirates and more modern escapists, Navy airmen will set up patrol bases, scan the Pacific to south, west and north. Another base will be set up 550 miles north of the Galapagos, on deserted Cocos Island, a favorite picnic stop of President Roosevelt's, where treasure-hunting for buried pirate gold is the only industry. (Costa Rica, the owner, now limits treasure...