Word: burlesons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...JACK BURLESON...
...medical section, commanded by Captain R. H. Draeger, hopes that none of the test animals will be killed outright. Said Draeger: "We want radiation sick animals, but not radiation-dead animals."* After the blast, the goats, pigs and rats will be collected and rushed to the U.S.S. Burleson, a transport equipped to house them. There, medics will study the effect upon them of the deadly gamma rays...
...stroke of midnight, an officer stepped to the microphone, asked for a moment of silence "as a small tribute to those we left over there"-to men like Captain Harl Pease, Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, Major Dean ("Pinky") Hoevet, Master Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva, Lieut. R. B. Burleson and Captain Colin Kelly. The widows of many men of the igth were present...
...plight of those downtrodden U. S. citizens whom other upstanding U. S. citizens ("the rabble on top") turned into Okies. He moved up to Milwaukee, joined Victor Berger on the famed Leader and fought to keep that paper going (as it did) in spite of wartime persecution by Postmaster Burleson...