Word: bucker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Major General Charles Macon ("Bull") Wesson, 78, onetime West Point ('00) line-bucker, later Chief of Army Ordnance, who took over that appropriations-poor department in 1938, had held the post for three years when the U.S. staggered into World War II without an outstanding tank design or artillery piece and still using World War I helmets, by his retirement in 1942 had fired up the Army's weapons program to nearly full steam; in Washington...