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Word: branch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in the rubble of Frankfurt, the Zeitung presses were once again rolling out honest news for the German people. American Army units (of the Psychological Warfare Branch) had taken over. With the assistance of former Zeitung employes, the U.S. Army printed 620,000 copies of a new free, four-page paper for German civilians, the Frankfurter Presse. It was the third and largest U.S.-edited German language paper (others: in Aachen and Cologne), all edited by Hungarian-born Hans Habe (4 Thousand Shall Fall), now a U.S. Army captain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News for Germans | 5/7/1945 | See Source »

Seasoned, solid, 48-year-old John Wesley Snyder, the new Administrator, is a hard-driving St. Louis banker, a former manager of the St. Louis branch of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., and an old and close friend of Harry Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Truman's Man | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

...Ninth Army captured Magdeburg (pop. 294.000) and 708,000,000 marks in the Magdeburg branch of the Reichsbank Plauen (pop. 111,000) fell to the Third Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: We Are a Shamed People | 4/30/1945 | See Source »

When Sloan became president of the Katy, eleven years ago, he shattered two railroad traditions: 1) he had landed at the top without working his way up from a roundhouse or telegraph desk; 2) he equipped an automobile with flanged wheels and put-putted over branch lines to save the expense of a special train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RAILROADS: Proxy Fight | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Ideas that look promising are handed on to every branch which may be interested. When they have made all their recommendations, O.T.C. gives its approval for pilot models, and they are sent to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: The Arms of the U. S. | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

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