Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Curt LeMay, 43, runs his armada from a second-floor office at Offutt Base, a converted World War II aircraft plant set peacefully among the rolling cornfields just west of the Missouri River. He leaves his door wide open and is usually "at home" to any brasshat or buck private-somewhat as a lion is at home on meatless Tuesday. He sits immobile behind his polished walnut desk, black-maned, broad-shouldered and heavy-faced, his lips set as straight as the five rows of service ribbons on his tan uniform jacket...
...once explained. "They know I wouldn't hesitate to send them out on a one-way mission if it ever became necessary." For his commanders he has one stock warning: "You will make some mistakes, and I will back you up-until you make the same one the second time. But don't ever try to fool me. That will be your last mistake...
...morning of Korea, LeMay didn't wait for the Pentagon to stir. He got. on the wire with the commanders of his air forces: the Second, Eighth and Fifteenth. He ordered in Major General Emmett O'Donnell, boss of the Fifteenth at March Field. For two days, while SAC was in the dark on Washington's plans, the staff pored over their own top-secret intelligence on North Korean targets. "Rosie" O'Donnell's B-29s were loaded with flyaway kits, holding enough spare engines and parts to keep them flying for 30 days until...
When he arrived in Korea to take command of the 27th, Michaelis had reverted to the rank of lieutenant colonel. A few days later, he had won his second battlefield promotion to full colonel. This time it looked as if he would keep his silver eagles. Said one of his sergeants thoughtfully : "The colonel, he's going to be a big man in this Army-or a dead...
...schoolchildren in Walpole, Mass, were used as human guinea pigs. In the first year, 216 children at the Stone School, who used powder containing penicillin, got 55% fewer cavities than 162 children at the Plimpton School, who used a powder identical in ingredients except for the penicillin. In the second year, the Stone School showed 54% fewer cavities than Plimpton, which seemed to prove that mouth bacteria did not become resistant to penicillin...