Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strikes me our mission is just to tell a true, clear story. ... I read . . . that the U.S. public is hungry for straight facts and undoctored reporting, and I can't think of a better way for the Radio Branch to serve it up than by such on-the-spot recordings. The public will certainly understand the sincerity with which our pilots, engineers and soldiers speak...
Valsa Matthai did not return. Last week her disappearance was still a mystery to the scientifically thorough (and 99.2% successful) Missing Persons Bureau of the New York police. It had stumped private investigators hired by the Manhattan office of Tata Iron & Steel Co., Ltd., branch of the rich House of Tata which controls much of India's heavy industry...
...ballplayers go), 4-Fs, a few discharged war veterans, a few Latin Americans, But there was also the bogey of a draft of 4-Fs into essential industries. By midsummer the national pastime might be almost exclusively a sport for the young and the old. Dodger President Branch Rickey offered a plan: let all the clubs limit their reserve lists of players to an agreed figure and pool the surplus, to be drawn on whenever any club needed a replacement...
...fight in situations where there is no possible safety for any man. And to fight effectively he has to be master of his weapon, and in the infantry today there are probably masters of more diverse techniques in the trade of war than are found in any other branch of the service...
...unprecedented in U.S. military history: as chairman of the Army & Navy's Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, he is the first civilian technician ever to sit in the highest war councils. The Office of Scientific Research and Development, which he commands, is in effect a fifth branch, G5, of the military general staff. Under OSRD (working with the Army's and Navy's own laboratories), practically all the nation's military-scientific research is mobilized.* OSRD has a National Defense Research Committee (weapons), a Committee on Medical Research...