Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...goods allegedly being destroyed are the materiel left behind by U.S. Army builders of the Alaska Highway, now finished. Colonel Frederick S. Strong Jr., chief of the U.S. Army's Northwest Service Command, flatly denied that any wasteful destruction was going on. Major General W. W. Foster, special Canadian commissioner for Northwest defense projects, conceded that some materiel was being destroyed. But he said that it was "materiel which, when reconditioned, will not meet the U.S. Army minimum standards." The Honorable T. A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources, promised everybody an investigation...
...Canadian farmers the deal opened the prospect of a fine postwar market. If Canadian beef can please the British palate, postwar shipments can be delivered in ten days or less. Such express shipments need only be chilled, not frozen. Canadian beef could command a fresh-meat premium price over Argentina's frozen product...
Beyond, in the open field, the bodies of some of the American gunners were being laid in rows beside the command tent. Farther on there were nine dead Japs in a ditch. One of them still clutched a stick with a bayonet tied to it. Nearby, beside a burning jeep, lay the body of a lieutenant. Corporal Anthony Kouma told us he had begged to be shot because he was so badly wounded. Kouma had said: "You'll be all right, sir," but the officer had died within a few minutes...
...27th Infantry Division, only Army outfit on Saipan, had a new commander before the island was finally taken: 49-year-old Major General George W. Griner, longtime infantry officer. The scuttlebutt: "Howlin' Mad" Smith had fallen out with the original division commander during the battle, summarily sacked him, put Soldier Griner in his command...
...infantry, said: "[Their] guts and brains . . . put the finishing touches-the copper-riveted handiwork-on the craftsmanship of the air forces, the artillery, and the tank corps." Last week it looked as though Whitey McNair was off to do some copper-riveting himself. Best guess: he would command an American army group somewhere in Europe...