Army & Navy - Rulers of the Air

In the control tower of the Atlanta airport WAVE Haughton bit all the lipstick off her lips last week. Cause: nervousness at bringing in her first plane with an admiral at the controls. But four hours later she sent him out as smoothly, calmly as if she had been running an airport-control tower since Kitty Hawk. This time there was no damage to cosmetics. She had heard the Admiral, George D. Murray, who commanded the Hornet, pronounce her work excellent.

Tall, curly-haired Jane Haughton has been an airport-control operator barely a month....

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