Word: wac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAC Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...
Bull alumni, who had been in on a good thing, were sorry to be the last of their line. They came, like the Army itself, from all over the U.S.-whites and Negroes, officers and enlisted men, and one nurse and one WAC (TIME, March 11). There was no saluting; all ranks were billeted together, first in the Bull Hotel (run by the Red Cross) and the colleges, later in Army huts...
...girl was an Oklahoma farmer's daughter, WAC T/4 Connie Grayson, 23, who was picked mostly because she was the lightest (106 lbs.) of all the G.I.s at Cambridge. The Americans called themselves "Bull College," after their billets in the famed Bull Hotel. They practiced three times a week for four weeks, trying to learn the mysteries of bumping races. The boats line up one after another, two lengths apart, and each tries to catch the shell ahead. Once the prow of the overtaking boat actually touches the other's stern, the overtaken boat loses one place...
Sophomore Richard Axt '47, and Philip Breger of M. I. T. were named vice-chairmen. Mary Sullivan, of Cambridge, an ex-WAC, was elected secretary, while John Pemberton, also of Cambridge, will take over as treasurer...
Oveta Culp Hobby, ex-director of the WAC, returned to Washington for a visit, showed conclusively that she had left all that way behind...