Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major and a lieutenant colonel, armed with a mimeograph of the Presidential order directing the Army to seize all U.S. railroads, walked into Union Pacific's towering Omaha headquarters building at 8 o'clock one morning last week. They took an elevator to the 12th-floor executive offices, began knocking at doors. At last they came to the office of tough little Vice President G. F. Ashby. He grinned and guessed...
Balloon Wanted. For 18 years the temperamental Baron has been a luxurious virtuoso among fashion photographers in the U.S. George Hoyningen-Huene was born in imperial St. Petersburg, the son of a Baltic nobleman and an American woman from Detroit. The Hoyningen-Huene family title dates from the 12th Century. During the Russian Revolution young Huene studied in England. After the Armistice he joined the British Army and served in South Russia...
Armistice. In September 1918, Colonel George C. Marshall, Chief of Operations for the First Army, finished the planning. On the 12th the First Army attacked along the salient at St. Mihiel. By the end of October the whole Meuse-Argonne front was aflame. In the gumbo mud of France 117,000 men of the First Army were dead or wounded. The German army was in retreat. On Oct. 30 Pershing wrote: "We should . . . continue the offensive until we compel [Germany's] unconditional surrender...
...will have 100,000 airplane ambulance beds. Latest released figures on air ambulance transport were given by Lieut. Colonel Richard Meiling of the Air Surgeon's Office: since the autumn of 1942, the Air Transport Command has evacuated, by air, 125,000 patients. In one area, the 12th Air Force moved 25,000 sick & wounded with only one death en route...
Slaughtered Saints. The U.S. Italian Protestant ministers spoke not only for their own congregations (Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian), but for Italy's Protestants who cannot speak for themselves. Most of these are Waldensians who originated in 12th-Century France, have lived chiefly in the Piedmontese Alps for 650 years...