Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There are a lot of extraneous elements creeping into the day's curriculum. Along with statistics classes taught to martial airs, we now have the zesty wit of Bob Wing probing to the depth of the case at hand. So far only in Company one has such individual initiative been displayed. From a general sizing up of war time responsibilities to putting hens on production schedules, Bob is sure to know and express the answer with deftness...
...C.I.O., the Northern city bosses and the South clashed last week at the 29th Democratic convention in Chicago. The fight, which ranged from the rawest of ward-heel tactics to the most delicate and nimble-witted of manipulations, ended in defeat for the C.I.O. and the Native Radical wing of the Democratic Party...
...C.I.O. and the evangelical amateurs had proved strong-the strongest of the three clashing wings of the party. But they lost to a combination of the city machines (Kelly, Hague and Flynn) and the entrenched conservatives of the South. But more important, the Wallace wing lost because Franklin Roosevelt had weighted the scales against...
...Arizona few weeks ago handsome, 21-year-old 2nd Lieut. Howard Stittsworth, an instructor who should have known better, dove at an automobile on the highway and made a fatal miscalculation. His AT6 trainer flattened out lower than he had expected, ripped one wing through the automobile, decapitated its driver. Somehow, Instructor Stittsworth pulled out, managed to get back home, pulled by a propeller that had lost its tips on the concrete road...
...tall (6 ft. 3 in.), drawling Princetonian ('32), once one of the most familiar characters in the U.S., last week found his finest recognition-as a crack U.S. fighting man. In England, 34-year-old Brigadier General Edward J. Timberlake Jr., commander of a B-24 combat wing, announced the appointment of 36-year-old Lieut. Colonel James Stewart as his chief of staff. Ted Timberlake, one of the Air Forces' greatest tacticians and red tape cutters, picks men for ability, not for public prestige...