Word: barney
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guadalcanal in 1942, Barney Ross got the Silver Star and a reputation as a Jap killer. He also got malaria. Brought home to the wartime U.S., he allowed his name and his medal to be exploited from coast to coast. Then he dropped out of sight. The next news of Barney Ross was when his showgirl war bride divorced him two months...
Died. Charles D. Barney, 101, one of the last of the ruling lions of the post-Civil War financial and speculative jungle, onetime clerk in Jay Cooke's famed banking house who married Cooke's daughter, went into partnership with his son, established an internationally known Philadelphia banking firm; in Elkins Park...
Lieut. General Barney M. Giles, made commander of the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, stuck to his estimate of the proper amount of occupation for Japan. Said he: "I hope we will be in Japan for 100 years...
Asked how long the U.S. should keep its air forces in Japan, grizzled Lieut. General Barney Giles, Deputy Commander of U.S. Strategic Air Forces in the Pacific, declared...
...come down at Chicago. But it was still the longest nonstop flight in U.S. Army history.* At Chicago they refueled and went on to Washington. Time for the 5,995-mile nonstop flight to Chicago: 25 hours, 43 minutes, an average speed of about 286 m.p.h. Said Lieut. General Barney Giles, commanding the flight: "This was a practical test, not a stunt." He added that planes soon will be flying back and forth without trouble all the time...