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...freighters droned toward India, last week, at his desk in ATC's homely headquarters at Washington's Gravelly Point, Hal George watched their progress from radio reports, ran his bright blue eyes over many another operations report - from New York to Cairo to Chung king, from Nashville across the Pacific to Port Moresby, New Guinea. He also found time to discuss his favorite topic: the limitless...
...worth of airplanes, young Lieut. George piloted one of the six Martin bombers that sank the ex-German battleship Ostfriesland, and proved to the world that even a dreadnought, under some conditions, was no match for air power. When a court-martial of generals tried Billy Mitchell for insubordination, Hal George was one of his defense witnesses...
...routes are being opened. By the end of 1943, Hal George's Air Transport Command will be ten times as big as the combined airlines of the peacetime world. It will fly nearly three million miles daily, over routes 90,000 miles long. Meanwhile its airmen will fly thousands of hours in the U.S., in the domestic transfer of freight and military aircraft...
...Hal George, who had succeeded Olds...
Recognition for 26 years of service came last weekend to Hal Ulen, Crimson swimming coach since 1929, from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Along with three other coaches who had molded tankmen for an equal number of years, Ulen was awarded a plaque...