Word: builded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enlisted men-officers do not have to work, and few of them choose to-repair Army clothes, tools and noncombat Army equipment, build sheds, lay roads. The Army also hires them out as farm laborers, woodcutters, quarry workers. The prisoner-workers are paid 80? a day by the Army (in canteen coupons) and wages for their work, paid at prevailing rates, go directly to the U.S. Treasury. P.W.s have saved crops, released service troops for other jobs, and the U.S. Government last year rang up about $10,000,000 on the deal...
With the return of peacetime conditions, the CRIMSON will return, relying a great deal on the men trained by the SERVICE NEWS. Men entering competition now and working on the SERVICE NEWS will help to build the nucleus about which the returning CRIMSON must operate. In so doing they will also benefit themselves by obtaining the best training in journalism available here, a training which covers newspaper work from all angles...
...Americal Division smashed their way onto Ticao and Burias Islands in the Sibuyan Sea, to build a springboard for an eventual jump against the Japanese penned up in Luzon's Bicol Peninsula...
...marines had lost sight of the target in the fog of battle, the San Francisco Chronicle had not. It roundly thumped Hearst for running down the marines in order to build up General MacArthur-who needed no build-up at anyone's expense. Observed the Chronicle: "Sinister fantasy ... to hint that the marines die fast and move slowly . . . because marine and naval leadership ... is incompetent...
...training for Bailey bridge-building, U.S. engineers practiced day after day through the pre-invasion summer of 1943, laying Bailey bridges across the Thames and tearing them down again. Today, under perfect conditions, a team of 115 engineers can build a five-span Bailey Bridge in 32 minutes flat. And its inventor, 42-year-old Donald Bailey, wears the Order of the British Empire...