Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nichols found only about 10,000 persons still serving in the Army's all-Negro units, with some 190,000 absorbed in regular outfits. The Air Force, with about 66,000 Negroes, has no segregated groups. Neither has the Marine Corps. Only the Navy trails in the wake: its stewards' branch (ships' servants) has one white enlisted man and more than 11,000 Negroes, about 48% of the service's Negroes. Instead of breaking up the stewards' branch, the Navy is recruiting Filipinos to dilute the Negro concentration of the stewards, a solution that...
...rumors]. The only danger seems to be that the hustling correspondents have had to do may cause them overfatigue due to faulty training. But the Queen, who has been trained for the job, obviously doesn't feel the same strain as apparently besets English journalists puffing in her wake...
...when a cold air mass from the Arctic or Siberia meets warm air from the south, and it often moves faster than 250 m.p.h. To Pan Am, it looked like a pot of gold. Pan Am's regular route from Tokyo to Honolulu required a fuel stop at Wake Island. The dog-legged course was 4,320 miles long and took more than 17 hours. With a boost from the jet stream, Pan Am reasoned, the hop might be made nonstop, saving 450 miles and covering part of the distance free on the river of wind...
...stream is no good in summer; it flows too far to the north. East of Honolulu, it is present but not dependable, and on east-west flights it is a hindrance rather than a help. When headed west, Pan Am still schedules the Wake Island stop...
...enormous. The cost of maintaining these places is tremendous to the taxpayer. The idea is vaguely rehabilitation. But of the 95% of inmates who are released, 65% come back to pris on. So prisons must be a failure . . . I felt the obligation to make this picture exciting enough to wake up taxpayers and the women of the country. If the women are aroused, something will be done about...