Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days Palmer Hoyt tried to run the Domestic Branch of OWI the same way he used to run his newspaper. It had taken him twelve years to grow from copyreader to publisher of the Portland Oregonian; it took him six months to convince Washington once more that the often-lamented shortage of Westerners in the Federal administration is Washington's loss...
...Navy's construction battalions, were two years old this week. The birthday pointed up two facts: how unprepared the Navy was to fight a war in the first days of 1942; how versatile the Navy has become in two years of war. In 24 months this single new branch has grown into an organization of 262,000 men - more men than the entire prewar Navy could muster...
Makers, Fixers. More than any other branch of the fighting forces the Seabees represent the genius of the industrial U.S. They are makers, fixers, improvisers, builders - blacksmiths, carpenters, crane operators, oilers, riggers, welders, plumbers; 59 building trades appear in their roster. Many ex-construction foremen are chief petty officers. Ex-civil, mechanical, and electrical engineers are commissioned officers. Average age of the Navy's jacks-of-all-trades is the middle...
Albert Worrall, 24-year-old shop steward in a Vickers-Armstrong factory in Manchester, was fired. During a propaganda broadcast from the plant, he had shouted "What about Mosley?" into a BBC microphone. The Manchester branch of his union, the Amalgamated Engineering Workers, threatened to strike if he were not reinstated...
Fast-stepping General Arnold's order, which had General George Marshall's approval, eliminated all service branch distinctions within the A.A.F. Said the order happily: "[Now] you are all members of this team whether you pilot the planes, repair the guns, build the airfields, maintain the radios, drive the trucks, handle the supplies or care for the sick and wounded." Members of the team will have "but one loyalty, one purpose, one distinguishing insigne...