Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technically operating under the Navy, but actually a most independent branch of the military, the U.S. Marine Corps is teeming with new ideas. It is the open intention of the Marines to move toward the ability to carry all their fighting men in helicopters. They would be supported by nuclear bombs, rockets and artillery fire so as to create atom-scourged "beachheads" up to 70 miles inland. Having landed, some of the troops would secure supply and communications lines by moving back to the real beaches through "atomic sanitized corridors." Ground Power. The U.S. Army is sure to have...
...roads. The New York Stock Exchange borrowed a page from the retailers' book; it started an installment-buying program that persuaded 26,000 new investors to put $63 million into buying stocks. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane, the largest U.S. brokerage house, fitted out three trailers as traveling branch offices, sent them touring the New York, Boston and Chicago areas, signed up hundreds of new accounts...
...could enlist in any branch of the armed services. Men in the Army or Marines would continue to serve three years on active duty and seven years in the reserves, and those in the Navy or Air Force would still serve four years on active duty and four years in the reserve...
Before long, Gardy Schmidt had one highly placed U.S. officer frisking about in hot-breathed deference to her wants. The officer, identified with embarrassed reticence only as "a high official in a highly sensitive position," got Gardy a job in the Order of Battle Section, the G-2 branch which keeps tabs on Soviet troops and military operations in East Germany...
...theater. Next day he sends cryptic memos to the directors. He still manages to keep his musical empire humming, brings eminent Western concert stars to the town (e.g., Singers Marian Anderson and Helen Traubel, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin). Early this year, he will repossess Takarazuka's Tokyo branch, which the occupation forces had turned into the famed Ernie Pyle movie theater. Last week the old showman ventured forth to take in a special show with a Christmas finale. Sample lyric...