Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explore that ever broadening horizon which you offered. It is more your farewell than mine, for you know as I do that the exodus is all but complete. Those who enter in my departing footsteps will not see the vistas I saw. You have not shuttered your windows, yet vision is obscured; the scene has changed...
...weeks ago Monro publicly and bitterly denounced his industry for making fantastic promises of postwar service. He called such boasts a "vision of the marijuana type." But by last week P.C.A. itself held top honors in the race among smaller U.S. airlines for sensational prophecy. In full-page newspaper advertisements P.C.A. announced that it had filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board an application for a transatlantic air route to Europe, using gigantic floating seadromes (cost, $10 million each; inventor, Edward R. Armstrong), spaced at 800-mile intervals as sea-based refueling stations...
...Revered Vision. Another was that, when the U.S. was pushed into World War II. it was also pushed into the vastest problem of world supply that any nation had ever had to meet. A third was that the vision of aviation's mission in the world, in war and peace, given to Army airmen by the late great Billy Mitchell, was still revered...
...Mitchell vision been more devoutly cherished or more openly defended than by Harold Lee George. In 1921, when General Mitchell was finally allowed, under smothering restrictions, to test the battle worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...
...airmen these are details, and details can be worked out. Occupationally impatient, young, and full of the vision of their new world, they wave before diplomats an Air Forces boast: "The difficult we do at once: the impossible takes a little longer...