Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousandth-of-an-inch accuracy, takes the steel's place. After the coil is welded, an electric current burns up the spaghetti core in a flash. For this ingenious idea, which cuts filament-assembly time from five minutes to one, Westinghouse Engineer William A. Hayes got a WPB award of Individual Production Merit...
Married. Greer Garson, 31, red-haired cinemactress who got 1942's Academy Award; and U.S.N.R. Lieut. Richard Ney, 29, peacetime cinemactor; each for the second time; in Santa Monica, Calif. In Mrs. Miniver...
...stood at deadpan attention while War Secretary Henry L. Stimson read the citation and pinned around his neck the blue ribbon and golden star of the Congressional Medal of Honor. Sergeant Snuffy was the second soldier in the European Theater of Operations to receive the nation's highest award,* the first live man to wear...
...K.P.s there is a single, better reason for the award: waste-hating Quartermaster Littlejohn abolished the peeling of potatoes...
...Army's first Distinguished Service Medal in the European Theater of Operations last week went to gruff and crusty Brigadier General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, ETO's chief quartermaster. Said the citation for the highest noncombat award: "marked aggressiveness . . . which met and solved many unexpected and seemingly unsurmountable problems of supply [including those of] the African Task Force...