Word: crackings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marines' Homecoming. By week's end the peninsula battle was finished. Orote airfield, the Sumay base of Pan American Airways and pre-Pearl Harbor Marine Barracks were in U.S. hands. Crack fighters of the ist Marine Provisional Brigade (veterans of Edson's ist Raider Battalion, Carlson's 2nd and Liversedge's 3rd) had still to clean out snipers in the jungle around the airfield...
...plants were making about a third of what they are now. Dewey, a hardboiled, thorough man, bulled through plant construction and speeded up the synthetic program. To help him, Rubber Boss Dewey had a good team: Plant Construction Chief William E. O'Brien and a staff of 35 crack engineers; U.S. Rubber's Lucius D. Tompkins, operations chief; Firestone's E. B. Babcock, top technician; and M.I.T.'s Professor Edwin Richard Gilliland, research director...
Around the world as in Berlin the tense voice sounded like the crack of doom. The one question that flashed through every mind was: is this the end, "the crackup? Had the long-awaited struggle between Hitler and his generals begun...
Without benefit of Hollywood, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), drawling Princetonian ('32), once one of the most familiar characters in the U.S., last week found his finest recognition-as a crack U.S. fighting man. In England, 34-year-old Brigadier General Edward J. Timberlake Jr., commander of a B-24 combat wing, announced the appointment of 36-year-old Lieut. Colonel James Stewart as his chief of staff. Ted Timberlake, one of the Air Forces' greatest tacticians and red tape cutters, picks men for ability, not for public prestige...
...Lear, a crack training man who was on the point of retirement for age, took over McNair's command in the interim, later took a desk job. Canadian-born Ben Lear came up from the ranks (enlisting in 1898 for the Spanish-American war). As Army-wise as a rolling caisson, Ben Lear would give uncompromising stability to the ground forces command on the home front...