Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week War Production Board's chairman, Julius Albert Krug, undertook in an official report to answer these questions. "Cap" Krug's picture of the job ahead...
Behind the resurgent Chinese armies (U.S.-trained, U.S.-supplied, U.S.-supported) was the cool, clear organizing and strategic brain of a tall, tactful American, the commander of all the U.S. forces in China and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff-Lieut. General Albert Coady Wedemeyer. He was the youngest (48) of U.S. theater commanders and one of the least known to the U.S. public. But all of his past now seems like a long (sometimes circuitous) march toward his predestined task in China...
...through Georgia. Wedemeyer was born to soldiering and cradled to the strains of military music. His grandfather, a music master, emigrated from the politically seething Germany of 1840, organized a band for the Union Army and marched it through Georgia, presumably with General William Tecumseh Sherman. His father, Captain Albert Anthony Wedemeyer, served as a U.S. Army bandmaster in the Spanish-American...
...George Albert Smith, 75, goateed Senior Member of his church's Council of the Twelve Apostles, became the eighth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). He inherits the mantle of all-powerful Prophet, Seer and Revelator of 954,000 Latter-day Saints...
...Polio is usually transmitted by personal contact, asserted Birmingham's Dr. Albert Casey in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. After tracing the sources of So cases in rural Alabama, he concluded that in that locality 1) the disease spread radially from the initial case, enlarging its circle at a rate of about a mile every ten days; 2) no outside agents such as rodents, food or insects seemed to be involved...