Word: squadrons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mere rattling of seats, which generally heralds the rise of a summer theater curtain, will inaugurate the dimming of the house lights at Wellesley's Alumnae Hall tonight. Elaborate brassladen ceremonies have been scheduled, which climax in a squadron of airplanes zooming overhead in letter "W" formation...
...Army Air Forces tried to impress the people of the Eastern Seaboard last week by flying 135 World War II Superfortresses over their heads. The main target of a simulated bombing attack was New York City, which only 101 bombers reached. One squadron had to be diverted to Florida after it ran into storms over Arkansas. To the disgust of General George C. Kenney, boss of the Strategic Air Command, one squadron reached New York 20 minutes late...
Chauffeur Teodoro Pérez was the complainant. During last month's inauguration of President Tomás Berreta, he picked up three U.S. bluejackets from the good-will U.S. naval squadron led by the cruiser Fresno. The sailormen slugged him and robbed...
Afterwards, behind a Military Academy cavalry squadron, the two Presidents rode between rows of organ cacti and Mexican foot troops over the newly paved city streets to the great, tomblike U.S. Embassy...
...greatly interested by your article [TIME, Feb. 10] about Mrs. Anthony C. Hartley (Deborah Kerr), because of the fact that I knew R.A.F. Squadron Leader Bartley when he was stationed at the Orlando, Fla. Army Air Base. I ... have wondered why the great L.B. [Louis B. Mayer] doesn't make his find a double-header and make a movie star out of Tony...