Word: troop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father retired, Stan got Inter-Island to give planes a try. He started in November 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibions. In 1941 Hawaiian bought three Douglas DC-3s, just in time to cash in on war traffic. All Inter-Island's passenger boats were put into troop service, so civilians had to use Hawaiian Airlines to get from island to island. Hawaiian also flew food from outlying ranches into Honolulu, and when Hilo's main laundry closed down (TIME, May 12, 1947), provided two-day service from a laundry on the island of Maui...
Dances, yesterday's symposium, and special entertainments rounded out the non-stop program. Sporadically entertained by the Glee Club and the Band, the 1800 also were serenaded by assorted other musicians including a troop of Scotch bagpipers, an accordion player and an organ grinder with an aging monkey. Bobby, the monk, who winters in the Square, drew plaudits and coin as he entwined his tail around bare ankles...
...modern air force by 1952. It would be built of planes developed since the war and available, to replace an air force of World War II planes. The present 55-group Air Force is organized as 13 heavy bomber groups, 24 fighter groups, three light-bomber groups, eight troop-carrier groups, seven miscellaneous groups including reconnaissance, mapping and weather,* plus 17 separate squadrons. The new force would add eight heavy bomber groups, one fighter, two light-bomber, two troop-carrier and two miscellaneous...
...size of a group varies with the planes: 30 heavy bombers or 48 light bombers or 75 fighters or 36 to 48 troop carriers...
...would have killed them all"). Said one British official in Jerusalem last week: "The whole effendi class has gone. It is remarkable how many of the younger ones are suddenly deciding that this might be a good time to resume their studies at Oxford . . ." Meanwhile, Arab papers trumpeted minor troop shufflings as major victories. When a detachment of Trans-Jordan's Arab Legion took positions around Jericho (under British commanders), one Beirut paper headlined: ABDULLAH'S ARMY STANDS BEFORE JERUSALEM...