Word: civilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grew naturally with the progressive expansionism of her hustling merchants. Nagoya, industrially the child of the Greater East Asia War, grew artificially, by military fiat. Fifty-five-year-old Junji Hattori, manager of a Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, put it this way: "When the military sticks its nose into civilian affairs, it makes horrible mistakes. Look at us now-no money, no initiative, no incentive. I'm afraid Nagoya's flower has bloomed and withered. Whether new buds will appear, only time will tell...
...lamppost revolution" of 1946 was to declare an amnesty for members of Razón de Patria, the ultra-nationalist military lodge behind the assassinated Dictator Gualberto Villaroel. Since then, the government has had plenty of reason to regret its generosity. In three years, RADEPA officers and their civilian supporters in the fascist Movement of Nationalist Revolution (M.N.R.) have pulled more than a dozen revolutionary attempts. Last week they tried another...
Robert Philo, a young civilian employee of the Philco Corp., lost his balance, fell, and was gone. But the rest of the Cochino's peop^-five of them badly burned-managed to save themselves. Two minutes after her captain, Puerto Rico-born Lieut. Commander Rafael Benitez, leaped to safety, the Cochino plunged to the bottom...
...taken a strong arm to do it, and Johnson had one. The victims were 135,000 of some 900,000 civilians who have been working for the Army, Navy and Air Force at everything from tapping typewriters to hammering rivets into ships. At the time of Johnson's order, there was one civilian employee in the armed services to every two men in uniform; now many a serviceman would have to work harder...
After listening to the squawks of World War II civilian-sailors for four long years, the Navy authorized the first basic change in the bluejacket's uniform since 1817. It ruled that in 1952 the pants of dress blues will be equipped with full-size pockets for the first time and that the 13 button-drop front (an incongruous symbol of the first 13 colonies, according to tradition) will be replaced by a zippered...