Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have long labored under the impression that the American Geoffrey O'Hara was the composer of said song. At least I and many other enlisted men of World War II saw and heard him sing this song as an entertainer and civilian employee of Special Services during World...
Russia Passes By. For weeks before May Day, all over Moscow, I had seen civilian columns practicing for the impending "spontaneous" demonstration. This had made me feel a little cynical; but I was not prepared for what was to come. Only part of the parade turned out to be organized. Most of it was people, just sauntering along. The tide of Russia's human power flowed by, mothers walking hand-in-hand with little girls & boys, fathers with still smaller children perched on their shoulders. There were kids tugging at toy balloons...
...marine in dress blues ushered five sober-looking Japanese into the crowded auditorium of Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building. Their dark, wrinkled civilian suits looked out of place among the sparkling Navy whites, the trim Army sun tans and Marine blues of the U.S. officers, and the summer furs of their ladies. As former staff officers of the Imperial Navy, the Japanese were official witnesses at the disposition of the remains of its fleet-92 vessels of destroyer size and under, which were to be divided among four victor nations. (Heavier ships and submarines have already been scrapped...
...also takes quite a few slaps at the Mauldin who, he says, "was a very embittered little squirt" when he got out of the Army two years ago. He knocks down his war-born reputation as "overinflated, overpublicized-and I wasn't that good." When he started doing civilian strips (TIME, Sept. 24, 1945), he had 180 papers using his cartoons; now he is down to 79 (circ. about 5,000,000). He is not bitter over the cancellations: "The quality of my drawings was lousy, and I got mad when I heard everybody talking about another war before...
During the early years of the war, Rutstein was national director of the gas protection section of the Office of Civilian Defense. Later he became acting director of the New York Bureau of Laboratories...