Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...guess more famous people have appeared on the MARCH OF TIME this summer than have appeared on any other program in so short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
Eberstadt is a close friend and great admirer of Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, energetic chief of the Army's Services of Supply...
Last week in Donald Nelson's office, the 140 publishers who heard Henry Doorly describe his drive were warned by the steel industry's Salvage Committee that "only a miracle" can prevent the curtailment of steel production within several months for lack of scrap. Bluff Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, chief of the Services of Supply, said: "You are not going to get scrap by one blast in your papers. You will have to keep after it day & night, for unless everybody puts everything he has into this war, we are not going...
...Unhappily-and unavoidably, the High Commands seemed to think-the only solution was still the one that had solved nothing yet. The Allies, dispersing their forces to meet the enemy wherever he was, in essence let the Axis General Staffs determine the grand strategy of the war. Lieut. General Brehon B, Somervell of the U.S. Army brutally stated the consequences last week. Said he: "We are losing...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell told them the war might be won or lost in the schools. The Army, he said, is dangerously short of technically trained men. Example: though the Army needs 4,689 trained radio operators in every 300,000 men inducted, it is getting only 135. In an army of 4,000,000 there is a shortage of 139,160 auto mechanics, a total shortage of 838,040 specialists...