Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a typical "commercial" on the Mosquito Network, a South Pacific branch of the Armed Forces Radio Service. U.S. Army doctors hope that the plug for Toujours Gai will lead G.I.s to use' their insect repellent, which not only smells bad but is also considered sissified by many fighting...
President Wallace Phillips took a pleased look about the Savoy's plushy dining room. This was the most successful luncheon the London branch of the American Chamber of Commerce had staged this year-400 British and U.S. admirals, generals, politicians and businessmen present, another 150 turned away. During the main course of veal roast, potatoes and asparagus he leaned over, made a suggestion to the luncheon speaker, British Minister of Production Oliver Lyttelton. Since there were so many Americans present, Mr. Phillips whispered, it might be a good thing if the speaker said a few words about...
Married. Mimi Chandler, 17, torch-singing Hollywood starlet (And the Angels Sing), daughter of Kentucky's Senator A. B. ("Happy") Chandler; and Army Ferry Command Major John Cabell, 27, cousin of Novelist (James) Branch Cabell; in Los Angeles...
Near the little woodland lake of Nemi. 20 miles from a Rome as yet unborn. Rome's Father Aeneas, at the Sibyl's bidding, plucked a branch from a tree in the Sacred Grove before he essayed his perilous journey into the world of the dead. In time Nemi's Sacred Grove withered, ultimately to be immortalized in Sir James Frazer's memorable journey through the world of dead religions - The Golden Bough. Meanwhile Rome, too, was born, flowered and withered into decay. One early expression of Rome's decay whom today's dictators...
...prize-winning programs was judged "the best entry submitted in the whole exhibition." It was They're All Afraid, a psychological drama, written by Lieut. Len Peterson of the Canadian Army's public-relations radio branch...