Word: cal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this one, ordnance planners long ago foresaw that the armed forces might shoot their way right through the available supply of copper, the key metal in brass cartridge cases. They were right. By this week some 70 companies were making cartridge cases of steel in all sizes, .45-cal...
...Marks. Her father, Arthur Marks, was a globe-trotting Brit ish mining engineer who went to school in the U.S. and once worked on the Nile's great Aswan Dam. A serious-minded tot, Lillian would probably have embarked on a career in medicine but for the paradoxi cal fact that she had weak arches. To cor rect them she took up dancing at the age of nine. A year later, in 1921, she danced her first engagement - as a child prodigy in the traditional Christmas pantomime Dick -Whittington at London's old Kennington Theater...
Captain Andrew Marshall, Jr., last remaining member of last year's officer complement, was transferred to Camp Beale, Cal., last week. Captain Marshall came here last spring as Mil Sci 1 instructor; he has since instructed Mil Sci 3 and 4, served as detachment commander, and as acting adjutant and executive of the Regiment. He joins 1st Lts. Jim Gibbons '41, Joe Ambrose '42 and Jim Hays '42 in the 13th Armored Division at Beale...
When the rocking-chair strategist, the political hamstringers and the Cal Tinneys were nasaling for a second front in Europe I didn't say, "The Russians will quit if we don't open up a second front in Europe!" Later, when the second front was opened up in North Africa, I didn't say, "I knew all along they was planning a second front in North Africa...
Complained the New York Daily News: "The London newspapers are daily scooping the world, enjoying breaks on stories of from six hours to as many days." Columnist-Radio Commentator Cal Tinney complained that the North Africa war was being fought "in a journalistic vacuum...