Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...WAFS' second graduation. When the last diploma was handed out, the new pilots became members of the Army Air Transport Command, by next afternoon were fanning out to ferrying bases at Long Beach, Calif., Dallas, Tex., Romulus, Mich., and Wilmington, Del. There they joined up with other WAFS already delivering aircraft from factories to Army tactical bases...
Broad-shouldered, stolid General Enrique Peñaranda del Castillo, President of Bolivia, last week led off a parade of foreign chiefs of state on the Roosevelt guest list.* He met his host on the south lawn of the White House, that evening was guest of honor at a state dinner...
...Committee of Action" publishes underground newspapers in Italy, France and Yugoslavia. In Italy these papers are so widely read that the police no longer arrest persons found reading them, but merely confiscate the copies with a warning. A clandestine mimeopaper, La Parola del Soldato (The Soldier's Word), is circulated among Italian occupation troops in France in collaboration with the French underground. Its aim: "union of action of all Italians ... for an immediate separate peace and for the restitution ... of freedom and independence against the Hitlero-Mussolinian oppressor...
...started when one night last winter Mrs. Philip Burnham of Wilmington, Del. could not go to the Red Cross to fold bandages. Mr. Burnham went instead. Delaware bandage-folding has not been the same since...
...Forzo del Destino...