Word: third-class
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...also reached the cover of the Satevepost,* which has since kept his bank account and his popular standing green. For the Post he has done, to date, either 222 or 223 covers, he is not quite sure which. During World War I he had a Navy interlude as "third-class painter and varnisher...
...Navy is sold. This week the second class (25 WAVES, 15 she-Marines) finishes the six-week course at Atlanta Naval Air Station, comes out with third-class petty officer technician ratings. Soon they will be graduated 75 to a class, will eventually replace 60% of men operators for airports overseas...
...postwar power on military cargo flights across the North Atlantic (TIME, Dec. 14). Now Northeast wants to fly passengers, mail and express freight over 22,866 route miles between Boston, Moscow and at least nine other European cities: "Boston to Moscow in 18 hours ... at [fares] no greater than third-class transatlantic steamship fare." Other applications...
...were four of the tour's annual headliners: Ben Hogan, leading low-scorer the past three years (now a civilian aviation student); Byron Nelson, always close on his heels (denied his plane transportation from Texas at the last moment); Sam Snead, most idolized of U.S. pros (now a third-class seaman in the Navy); and Craig Wood, National Open champion (now a captain in the Marines...
...passivity of the English poor; on the drowning weight of the past, the atrophy of the sense of the future; on the "dead-end look" in the faces of the young; on the fagend of the industrial revolution, a people physically rated, even by their own experts, as a third-class nation; on moral apathy and deafness to change of the middle and upper classes; on the leaders of England ("The profoundest wish of English statesmen of our time was to elude the responsibility of statesmanship"). "Looking ahead, one saw the face of nightmare; looking back, one saw the faces...