Word: anacostia
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...sample of this duplication, Congressmen needed look no farther than Washington, where Army's big Boiling Field and Navy's big Anacostia Air Station operate side by side with duplicate control towers, ground crews, weather forecasting. Some critics insist that such duplication of supply and facilities, which is worldwide, has cost the U.S. hundreds of millions of dollars, plus the services of several hundred thousand...
Perhaps the sole action of his life that MacArthur would willingly forget is the Victory of Anacostia Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money...
...Anacostia River near Washington's Navy Yard, engineers tested fluorescent buoys to be used as markers for alighting seaplanes. Having no hot filaments to burn out, fluorescent lamps (coated inside with powders which shine by electrical agitation) are durable as well as efficient. The buoy lamps are carried on inflated floats shaped like doughnuts, which contain short-wave radio receivers so that the lamps can be turned on & off by remote control from shore...
...picked a candidate for mayor, thought the election was in the bag, and went salmon-fishing off Anacostia Island. When he got back, he found his candidate had been scared out of the race by the late Samuel Davis Wilson, a loud. belchy, vigorous, utility-baiting, renegade Democrat, who campaigned with such ear-catching phrases as: "Before I get through I'll take...
...days after the naval review, he visited Bolling Field with Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, inspected every type of Army plane there stationed and also the latest Naval equipment at nearby Anacostia. From his car the President watched mechanics demonstrate the marvels of folding wings, retractable pontoons...