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Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, recently retired as deputy commander of the U.S. Air Forces, got the first civilian job of his 51 years: vice president of storm-tossed Millionaire Howard Hughes's placid Hughes Tool...
While the Army's Inspector General, Major General Ira T. Wyche, carrying a bulging notebook, hustled home to report to Chief of Staff Eisenhower on the results of his own investigation into Mediterranean morale, General Lee held an explanatory press conference in Rome. Ruark's charges, he said, had nothing to do with his retirement (which becomes effective as soon as all U.S. troops are evacuated from Italy). In fact, he had asked for retirement as far back as February...
...correspondents in Italy (many of them ex-servicemen themselves) would not go as far as Visitor Ruark (who spent 36 hours in Leghorn, eight days relaxing at Capri). But his tooting was loud enough to reach Ike Eisenhower, who promptly ordered the Army's Inspector General, Major General Ira T. Wyche, to take off for Leghorn immediately...
...soon level off and that it would finally land, on higher ground than it had rested on before the war, but in a stable position nevertheless. But last week, despite all sorts of order-shouting and lever-jerking, prices were still going up like the balloon that carried Aeronaut Ira Thurston out over Lake Erie...
...Ira Godin's five relief appearances without a decision were considered an oddity in the Conference report...