Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force in Britain. Under him in Africa will be the R.A.F.'s Air Marshal Sir William Welsh, Major General Jimmy Doolittle, and General Jean Mendigal with his poorly equipped but zestful French airmen. General Spaatz presented 13 U.S. P-4Os to the French Lafayette Escadrille, successor to the famed U.S. squadron of World War I, and promised that the French will get more U.S. planes...
...Buchmanites were seeking draft deferment on the grounds that their Moral Re-Armament organization (successor to Buchman's sin-&-tell Oxford Group) was necessary to the nation's wartime morale. Prompt to disagree were New York Local Board No. 17 and the district Appeals Board. Yet somehow the Buchman men had managed to find friendlier ears on more exalted heads...
...inter-party knife-throwing. Lacking both the background and the training necessary for delicate diplomacy, Flynn owes his appointment to peculiar political circumstances. These circumstances make him much less than satisfactory to the Democratic Party of which he is chairman. But they do little to make him the ideal successor of the current minister, Nelson Johnson, and they may well serve to disrupt long-sought unity at home and abroad...
Matters also revealed that he will tender his resignation as Council President at tonight's meeting, and that his successor would be chosen when the new body has been elected. John P. Kennedy, Jr. '44, recently chosen as treasurer, will continue in that position...
...every plane in operation there is a successor in the works incorporating the knowledge gained in combat around the world. The Flying Fortress' successor will have even greater bomb capacity, fire power, range and speed. > The trend is toward ever bigger bombers. On display was a mock-up (wooden dummy) of a bomber capable of carrying far larger bombs than Britain's present four-ton blockbusters...