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...unfortunately only a very few pages of Colonel Kernan's very short book are devoted to a military proof of how attack and attack alone can win this war. The majority of his space he spends on expanding his basic idea in two directions, both of which seem to lead him into the mires of confusion and false proof. First he tries to generalize on his thesis and to prove the need and validity of the attack at all times and under all possible situations. Second, he tries to reduce his thesis to specifics and claims that an attack...
Inaugurating three courses in basic aviation instruction, the Graduate School of Education moved to modify their wartime program last week. The School plans to open the training classes today, acting in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Education...
...first course will consider the background of aeronautical history, and the advances made in aviation sciences up to the present time. In the second of the series, basic information concerning servicing and manufacturing of planes will be discussed as background material for actual flying. The third section will consist wholly of a conference of national education leaders, dealing with the relationship of aviation to education...
President William S. Jack was generous. Starting in 1941 at $25,000 a year for himself, Mr. Jack got $145,854.23 before the year was out. His basic pay and the basic pay of son William Jr., and of Ralph M. Heintz (co-owners): $100,000 each. "We were only making sure that we wouldn't go broke," explained Mr. Jack...
...changes forced by the airplanes on all the basic attributes of fighting ships-firepower, mobility and protection-have been so marked that some of them will be apparent even to landlubbers. In the days after 1942 no design changes will be too fantastic to be dismissed without sober consideration...