Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medal Winner. The committee went after other high officers. It cited "the decoration with the Legion of Merit of a colonel in the Engineer Corps who had so badly mismanaged the only source of replacement parts for engineers' equipment in the world that the War Department had to send...
Nobody took much notice of the sharp-eyed, unsmiling man, standing in the long queue. Slowly and inconspicuously he moved along with the other 3,500 veterans waiting to buy surplus property at Baltimore's Holabird Signal Corps depot. But the sharp-eyed man was taking plenty of notice...
At many posts the boosts would still fall far short of meeting bills for maintaining an expensive house, a large corps of servants, and entertaining on a scale befitting an envoy of the world's richest nation. In London, Averell Harriman, who has been getting about $31,000 salary...
For slender, 44-year-old Bishop Huang, who had arrived from China wearing a discarded G.I. uniform, the colorful service of consecration was both an end and a beginning. It was a reward for Christian work during the misery of war. Somehow he survived 265 bombings unscratched while he helped...
Last week he was back at one of his old campuses, Thunderbird Field, near Phoenix, Ariz., "the country club of the Air Corps." He was also back in the education business, this time in a private way. Barton Yount was president of the American Institute for Foreign Trade, newly organized...