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Commander Nancy Harkness Love of the Women's Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (TIME, Sept. 21) last week told about WAFS uniforms: grey-green wool gabardine jackets with squared shoulders, gored skirts, overseas caps to match, civilian pilot wings on left breast pocket, tan broadcloth shirts and ties. For flying there will be helmets and grey-green slenderizing slacks (see cut). (Uniforms required on active duty only, optional at other times.) WAFS training starts this week at a New Castle (Del.) airport with 25 pilots of at least 200 horsepower rating and 500 hours' flying time. After four weeks...
...trend did not change. The count gave Talmadge 117,731; whiz-bang young Attorney General Ellis G. Arnall, 162,889. Despite the Palace Guard he built up during three terms, despite his rabble-rousing, nigger-hating appeal to Georgia's "wool-hat" boys (small farmers), Gene Talmadge had taken a sound trouncing...
...principle of automatic heat control, now used in electrically heated flying suits, has been applied by General Electric Co. to a bed blanket which looks, feels and launders like any cotton-wool blanket, but carries a low-voltage current which can be set to maintain any desired temperature without regard to weather changes or home fuel shortage...
...Navy air arm although no longer an outcast is still a stepchild to the Navy's battleship admirals. Rear Admiral John H. Towers, a dyed-in-the-wool aviator who has been flying since 1911, did get promoted to Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Air. But plans to make him a Vice Admiral, and to promote deserving airmen on his coattails, have been lost in the shuffle. "Jack" Towers has been excluded from powwows of the General Board, and has applied for active sea duty...
...removing 1,000,000 lb. of floss from milkweed pods, for the U.S. Navy. The floss will replace kapok, formerly imported from Java, in l) life jackets where, like kapok, it is six times as buoyant as cork; 2) linings of flying suits, where it is as warm as wool but six times lighter. Next year farmers will be paid to plant free milkweed seed in 50,000 barren acres of upper Michigan...