Word: 74th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fire Direction Center team at Fort Sill, Okla., in mid-November 1940. In self-defense against slow torture from intricate mathematics, Harry Burns one night experimented with a homemade paper slide rule. Most officers were unimpressed. But one major, George V. Keyser (now a brigadier commanding the 74th Field Artillery in Mississippi), saw the potentialities of Burns's Graphical Firing Table...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays...