White Castle, the hamburger chain, opened its first restaurant in Wichita Kansas. It was the very first fast food restaurant.
I've never eaten at a White Castle, which I believe is famous for sliders. For that matter, over the years I've gotten to where I'm not a big fan of fast food burgers for some reason, preferring the slow food ones from the grill. But it is quite a difference in the food landscape that White Castle brought about.
Gen. Billy Mitchell submitted a report to his commanding officer containing his strong dissent from a report that battleships remained superior to aerial bombardment. He further recommended that the Department of War and the Department of the Navy be consolidated into a single department, with the service branches all being sub departments.
While he's justifiable recalled as a visionary today, in truth ships were much less vulnerable to aerial attack at the time than often imagined, and the recent tests conducted on captured German ships had in fact tended to prove that. This would soon change, but not in the way really imagined at the time, as heavy bombers never did develop as a strong anti shipping weapon.
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