Word: carl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heavies. The Luftwaffe was almost down & out. For that, Air Marshal Coningham and his tactical flyers were glad to yield most of the credit to Lieut. General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's strategic heavy bombers and their fighter escorts. The strategic crews had taken on the Luftwaffe in the air and smashed it in its factories on the ground. They had cut it down - at considerable cost to themselves - to the point where it could only rise intermittently and over the most vital objectives...
...grey-red House of Representatives, Finland's Eduskunta (parliament) met five times in one day. In its fifth fevered session it jolted stubborn, Russophobic President Risto Ryti out of office, gave his job to Finland's one indubitably strong man, stubborn, Russophobic Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustav Mannerheim...
...organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director of the Chicago Light Opera Company, tried to lash the wilting crowd into singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic...
...years the medical profession has politely raised its eyebrows and looked down its nose at Bacteriologist Edward Carl Rosenow. But Dr. Rosenow, a stubborn man, has persisted in his peculiar obsession. Says he: there is a strep-polio axis-somehow, in ways no doctor understands, streptococcus plays a malignant part in infantile paralysis. (A coccus is a round bacterium large enough to be seen with an ordinary microscope. A virus is so small it can be seen only with an electron microscope, has some bacteria-like and some protein-like qualities-no one knows for sure whether it is living...
Admirals Harold Stark and Alan Kirk, Generals Carl Spaatz and James Doolittle were busy making history on the morning of June 6. While their planes bombed German communications and their ships took U.S. soldiers to Normandy, their wives saw service (see cut) on radio's far-flung Invasion Day front...