Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shipped from ETO are Eisenhower's highly skilled Army Service Forces Engineer units. Some are already on the way to Pacific bases. There they will prepare installations to handle millions of tons of water-borne supplies. Other A.S.F. troops are being pulled out of Europe to build supply dumps and barracks in the Philippines, which will be the staging area for the final campaign against Japan. Luzon will be the England of the Pacific war, although, as A.S.F. chief General Brehon Somervell regretfully noted: "It is 1350 miles from the Philippines to Japan as against 100 miles from England...
...Setup. Around these two men -one an ex-U.S. Senator, ex-Supreme Court Justice, ex-War Mobilizer, the other a smart, prosecutor-type, young (36) attorney-Harry Truman would build a new official family. Among the true New Dealers there were few whom Truman liked; there would be some Cabinet changes made in the weeks and months ahead. And the "Palace Guard" of Roosevelt days would swiftly disappear...
...endurance as Robinson Crusoe's own. In many respects Crusoe's 20th-Century counterpart went Crusoe one better. Tweed had no handy wrecked ship from which to salvage an "abundance of hatchets," nails, knives and other carpenter's tools. The only tool he had to build some of his furniture was a machete...
...writing them, which is part of the cure. You will get the whole thing out of your system. And I shall have so much fun tearing them up that I shall probably feel better, too. In this way we shall all save our reason and between us build a fitter, happier, saner world to face the terrors of peace...
Loose-shouldered Ensign Adolf Kiefer, who began breaking world backstroke records ten years ago, helped Wally Ris build up a top-heavy 46-point team total for the Bainbridge (Md.) Naval Training Center. With strokes to spare, Kiefer copped his pet 150-yd. backstroke event and the 300-yd. individual medley. Cracked 26-year-old Adolf Kiefer to himself when he banged his funny bone against the side of the pool on the last leg of the backstroke: "What am I doing in here anyway? I'm too old for this sort of thing...