Word: visione
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prophet and high priest of this new vision is Dudley P. South, research engineer of Higgins Industries Inc., whose torpedo boats and tank-carrying invasion boats are already important United Nations weapons (TIME, May 4). Within four or five weeks Dudley South expects to have a few experimental models of Higgins' new boat-trucks to play with up & down the Orinoco, in the hope of developing them for big-time passenger and freight use when peace comes...
...Army will take men with 20-100 vision correctible with glasses to 20-20, a lower requirement than the 20-20 without glasses demanded for regular flying cadets...
...relaxed, looked up from the mass of unanswered registration questions and allowed his eyes to adjust for more distant vision. He gazed again at the stained glass windows of the Gothic Barn, and then lowered his eyes to the endless sea of registrants around him. Vag had never registered in Summer School before, and the adult multitude dotted here and there with gray-haired ladies seemed rather odd to him. Schoolteachers, he told himself. Uncounted multitudes of more schoolteachers as far as the eye could reach, with vistas of more schoolteachers beyond, to the very confines of Memorial Hall. There...
...side with command of the air can operate successfully on the surface. Britain proved it again in the retreat from Dunkirk. In the Battle of Britain, Germany came close to proving Mitchell down to the last paragraph, but failed because she went at the job with too little vision (and too few airplanes) and because Britain took command...
Beyond Mitchell's Dreams. The job General Arnold's Air Forces have to do has grown beyond even the complexity of Billy Mitchell's vision...