Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always turns the same face to the earth. The other side of it will always be inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...
...Krug halted the production of cotton yarn for civilian needs. Manufacture of upholstery and drapery material, chenille bedspreads and dishmops, would make way for an Army rush order of eight million pounds of cotton duck a month, to meet a shortage of Army tents. The Fourth Service Command in Atlanta furloughed 1,000 former textile workers now in uniform to return to the looms and turn out cotton duck. They will receive factory wages, in addition to regular Army...
...mother country would gain some long-term assets. She would have a say in the disposition of the island's enormous undeveloped resources (including those in virtually unexplored Labrador). She could still oversee Newfoundland's strategic command of the sea and air approaches to the Western Hemisphere and the aviation bases at Goose Bay in Labrador, Gander on the East Coast, the U.S.-leased airport at Stephenville. These were reasons enough for Britain to keep her hand in Newfoundland affairs; why, as Newfoundland's trustee, she refused to commit herself on postwar air rights in Newfoundland territory...
Colonel John K. Stotz, Signal Corps, USA, head of the Army units in technical training here, announced that a third group, under his command, would remain at the University until the end of July. This school, the USAAF Weather Wings, trains enlisted men in the use of special equipment, not radar, for weather observation...
...August 8, 1943, he was again appointed Lt. (jg), this time in the Line, USN (Ret.) and he filled out his service as capable administrative assistant to the Commanding Officer, whose command had expanded to include the numerous war-time training activities