Word: allens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ALBERT ALLEN BIRD...
...Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Major General Terry de la M. Allen of the famed First Division (TIME, May 10) went the Croix de Guerre for their Tunisian exploits. The decorator: General Louis Koeltz, commanding General of the XIX French Army Corps...
...predicted a serious shortage of crude oil within a year. Within 14 years the U.S. will be a "have-not" nation in oil, he said, when the last drop of its oil fields is drained (if the present rate continues). Same day, Assistant Deputy Petroleum Administrator Robert E. Allen warned that the U.S. is threatened with a permanent oil shortage in two years unless "miraculously prompt" discovery of new fields offsets declining production. The U.S. must bring in 20,000 new wells a year, said he, to maintain present production...
Which is probably as great a feat as Bob Bissett's trick of thinking about his marketing cases and his girl at the same time and solving the Harvard Coop case once and for all by asserting dogmatically that the only way to sell Allen Hats is to install many mirrors in the Coop because that's the way his girl likes to buy her hats . . . a nice trick...
...team of Lev Allen and Daddy Weems was beaming last week. T.I.S.'s program was well over the hump. Starting next month, they can expand the course to 17 weeks as the need for new officers slackens (TIME, April 26). This week T.I.S. will have its first formal inspection by Lieut. General Lesley McNair, head of the Army Ground Forces. Among the sights: 239 first classmen from West Point, 90 officers of the newly activated 42nd ("Rainbow") Division taking refresher courses...