Word: brehon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production of matériel for the Army Ground Forces was below expectations, but not necessarily alarming-3½% below April, 5½% below the goals (TIME, June 28). Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, commanding the Army Service Forces, called this drop "serious." But indications are definite this week that war production in June was no better than...
Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell, Chief of the Army Services of Supply, asked this question of himself, of the upturned faces at the opening session in New York of the Chamber of Commerce convention, and of the nation. Then he gave part of the answer...
Married. Lieut. General Brehon Burke Somervell, 50, Chief of the Army Service Forces; and Louise Hampton Wartmann, 49, friend from his West Point days; both for the second time; in Ocala...
Such verses from a World War I ditty were well known to Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell when he took over command of Services of Supply. Despite what uniformed wags from the combatant branches said, they had nothing to do with a change of name announced last week on the first anniversary of the S.O.S. The new name: Army Service Forces. Reason for the change: to conform with Supply's counterparts - Army Ground Forces and Army Air Forces...
...turn on raw-materials shortages, had laid down the facts of the rubber famine four months before the famed Baruch report. One single investigation, of graft and waste in Army camp building, had saved the U.S. $250,000,000 (according to the Army's own Lieut. General Brehon B. Somervell). Their total savings ran into billions, partly because of what their agents had ferreted out in the sprawling war program, partly because their hooting curiosity was a great deterrent to waste...