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...Douglas Bader was valuable for his character, these men were valuable in terms of pounds, shillings and pence. It cost at least $100,000 apiece to train and maintain the 23 pilots who were killed in both crashes, up to the time when they began ferrying. The planes which crashed were presumably Consolidated B-24 Liberators, worth about $250,000 each. Total loss in the two crashes: at least...
...propose that Douglas Bader be prohibited from ever stepping into an aircraft again. Such men as he-and there are many like him-are too valuable to England. . . . The race should be allowed to keep their finest types...
...wrote London Daily Mirror's Cassandra last month of Acting Wing Commander Douglas Robert Stewart Bader, 31, who has no legs. Last week the British race was suddenly without his services...
John ("Barney") Bader, 29-year-old president of the local, acquiesced to the demands of the members, appointed a trial board to investigate 1) Stone's charges against Lundquist, Keppler & friends; 2) charges against Stone and his helpers that they had defamed the Lundquist faction. Principals in the fight were meanwhile suspended. Last month, 2,000 members assembled to hear the first group of the trial board's reports and pass judgment. The meeting opened with music and drum majorettes cavorting on the stage, fell into a hush when the trial board began to read a report...
Director of the Mission is grave, slow-smiling Dr. Jesse Moren Bader of the Federal Council of Churches. At Kansas City he laid down its blueprint: "The National Christian Mission . . . seeks to restore the inner resources of the nation through repentance, faith, devotion and responsible citizenship. ... The Mission is united in seeking a new world order of justice and peace. The Mission is united also in its belief that the democratic way of life, to which it is devoted, requires spiritual foundations...