Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sites for veterans' hospitals have long been picked by pork-barrel politics. Of the 97 hospitals now in operation, 52 are in small towns where there are often short ages of good doctors, attendants, dietitians. Aware of this, Four-Star General Omar Nelson Bradley came to a sharp decision when he took over the Veterans Administration: hospitals would henceforth be built near big city medical schools. Last week Oklahoma's windy Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas fired the first gun to scare Omar Bradley off such ideas...
...Senator called in reporters, baldly announced that he had sent General Brad ley a "virtual ultimatum" to take over a 750-bed Army hospital in Okmulgee, a small Oklahoma oil town. The hospital is not fireproof, and it is within 37 miles of another Veterans' Hospital (prewar, pork-barrel style) in another small town, Muskogee. VA plans call for a new 1,000-bed building in Oklahoma City. But the Senator was looking for a fight. "If the VA does not take this hospital over," he said, "I will ask why when they come before the Senate for more...
...Louis, Cardinal Boss Sam Breadon, who pushes a button and pro duces new talent from his vast farm chain, pushed a special managerial button and up came barrel-chested Eddie Dyer from Texas. Dyer had been a fair pitcher, talent scout and Cardinal farm system director, a well-liked manager at Houston and Columbus. Businessman Sam Breadon had lots of confidence in his new manager; he also regretted losing...
Died. Commodore Dixie ("Indestructible Man") Kiefer, 49, barrel-chested, battered carrier hero, exec of the Yorktown at Coral Sea and Midway, Captain of the twice-Kamikazed Ticonderoga, who remained on the bridge for eleven hours directing damage-control operations after he had absorbed 65 bomb-fragment wounds; when his twin-engine plane crashed near Beacon, N.Y. in pea-soup...
...take them along, but most showed good military discipline and resigned themselves to discomfort. The crowding was so great that they jampacked the floor in a sitting position, each man's back against another's bent knees. Because ground troops have a tendency to airsickness, an open barrel in the middle of the cabin was standard equipment...