Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price of the Army's Flying Safety Branch told the conference : flying accidents during the war destroyed more planes than the enemy. Between V-J day and Nov. i, civil aviation accidents jumped 70% over the 1944 rate, would probably continue to go up as more & more inexperienced pilots take to the air. Said Price...
Hammond, who has been in Army since October, 1942 returned to this country last month. In service he attained the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Army Air Force Intelligence; later, assigned to the Civil affairs Service, he served as chief of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Branch of the U.S. Group, Allied Control Council. His last work was with the Allied Military Government in Sicily, Italy proper, and Germany...
...This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse, "we can make both games the same week...
...Physics prizewinner for 1945 was Vienna-born Professor Wolfgang Pauli, 45, who had worked since 1940 in the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J. Professor Pauli is an authority on quantum mechanics, that nightmarish never-never branch of science where solid matter begins to dissolve into waves and energy...
From June until October, 1943, he was the director of the Liberated Areas Branch of the Lend-Loase Administration, which later was amalgamated into the Foreign Economic Administration. Prior to this he held positions in the Department of the Interior...