Word: commandeer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleanup in the Rear. No one could take more satisfaction from this success than General Morshead himself. He had come to the Borneo command from the torturous, far from finished battle of New Guinea, one of the rear-area wars where the Aussies are still busy at the grim cleanup...
This was a result of the divided command system (TIME, July 23) in the Pacific. The example was perhaps not very significant; the command setup...
...most localized testing ground-the great Okinawa base-there was evidence of inherent confusion. Into its 485 square miles were packed many thousands of men with many bosses: MacArthur had his ground forces, Nimitz his shore establishments and Spaatz was setting up his B-29 housekeeping command. In addition, both MacArthur and Nimitz had their own air commands...
...Grenades. While Pfc. Carter ran back a few yards to get another rifle from the company command post, the enemy started tossing hand grenades. One landed inside the foxhole. Harrell tried to find it and throw it back. It blew off his left hand. His left thigh was broken, too, and he bled from many wounds made by fragments of the grenade...
Shortly before he died, Franklin Roosevelt asked Dr. Vannevar Bush to blueprint a new deal for U.S. science. Last week the chief of the wartime scientific high command dropped his blueprint on President Truman's desk. The plan, drafted by Dr. Bush and four committees composed of leading U.S. scientists, would require the Federal Government to spend some $122,500,000 a year to support basic scientific research and the education of young scientists...