Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mornings for the Biceps. At 72, Bernie Baruch is still eminently fit to serve his country. He holds his 6-ft.-3½-in. frame so erect that he always seems to tower. He weighs only about 20 lb. more than his best fighting weight (175). His clear blue eyes twinkle behind his pince-nez; his lean, patrician face is less wrinkled than the faces of many men 20 years younger; he has a healthy thatch of snow-white hair...
...control tower of the Atlanta airport WAVE Haughton bit all the lipstick off her lips last week. Cause: nervousness at bringing in her first plane with an admiral at the controls. But four hours later she sent him out as smoothly, calmly as if she had been running an airport-control tower since Kitty Hawk. This time there was no damage to cosmetics. She had heard the Admiral, George D. Murray, who commanded the Hornet, pronounce her work excellent...
...control-tower operators are a kind of remote-control traffic cop. No plane may move about the field without their clearance. By radio and signal lamp they issue priorities in landings and takeoffs, clear and assign runways, give directions for taxiing, direct planes to hangars, cite wind direction and velocity. At a busy field, tower operators have no time for knitting...
Airmen had their fingers crossed when WAVE tower operators were proposed. They doubted if they could master complex regulations, charts, procedures, meteorological and radio skills (the WAACs have shied away from it), were suspicious of how women would bear up under control-tower pressures...
WAVES' sole difficulty at tower work was not anticipated. On their first day they wore skirts climbing ladders to the towers. Sailors gawked. Next day slacks were regulation...