Word: directing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Most U.S. military men agreed that greater reliance on direct air supply would be a vital supplement to sea and land transport in any major future war. The most extreme advocates of air supply maintained that it was already possible to fly combat forces to any point in the world and keep them supplied. Nobody had argued along these lines more persistently than Combat Cargo Command's General Tunner, who believes that "We can fly anything, anywhere, any time...
...Canadian policy was set forth in a more direct and specific form than the British position. As stated by External Affairs Chief Lester Bowles Pearson, and discussed privately by Ottawa officials, Canada's view ef the situation added up to this...
...leading edge of the wing. They sheared off the left wing tip and 20 inches of the aileron. But the pilot climbed to 30,000 feet and got home, landing at 170 m.p.h. and taxiing up to the line under his own power. "It takes almost a direct hit by heavy antiaircraft," said one pilot, "to bring down...
...book that gave the look of things just as they happened was LIFE'S Picture History of World War II. Though it was officially ineligible for bestseller rating (since most copies were sold direct and not over bookstore counters), Picture History, with half a million copies sold, was the year's real non-fiction bestseller...
...Your refusal, in spite of earlier promises, to give any publicity at all to the important fact that Harvard University students were both direct and indirect beneficiaries of the Red Feather Community Fund in either your advance story on the College Combined Charities Drive (10/25/50), or in your story on the opening day of the drive (10/31/50). (The three buried lines in your later editorial (11/1/50) were wholly ineffective, not merely because they came after most of your readers had already made up their minds, but also because you were entirely too brief to summarize fairly the written statement...