Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both Hap Arnold and air power. "If one man could do it once, what if a lot of men did it together at the same time?" Two years later, in answer to a War Department call, he volunteered to learn to fly at the Wright Brothers' field in Dayton. Said his disapproving commanding officer: "Young man, I know of no better way for a person to commit suicide!" In that year, 1911, Hap Arnold became one of the first two qualified airplane pilots...
Arnold never flew a plane to combat. In World War I he became the youngest colonel in the U.S. Army and the second-ranking air officer, but he was kept in Washington. His account of those years is the familiar one of War Department myopia, never enough and that too late. Billy Mitchell wanted to bomb Germany, but the U.S. hadn't a single bomber. When Mitchell was court-martialed in 1925 for his obstreperous advocacy of air power, his friend & follower Hap Arnold was sent off to rusticate at Fort Riley. Determined not to quit under fire, Arnold...
...Iron Hoop presents itself as the story of any occupation after any war. The conquered are represented by "The Hero," an aging visionary; Bud, a sex-happy racketeer; Paul, a boy trying to do the man's work of revolution, and his sister Anna, the eternal fraulein. The conquerors include a commanding general whose rifle-cracking speech sounds borrowed from George Patton; the general's rare-do-well nephew, who keeps his wife in a nervous sweat and Anna in a little apartment, and a Congressman who bellows in public to inspect the security files, and pants...
Although large, the number is a drop from peak graduate enrollment during the war years...
Referring to post-war studies of agricultural needs made by the department of Agriculture, Waugh urged the study of national clothing, housing, coal, steel, automobile, road, and school needs and the setting of production goals in these and other fields...