Word: depot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost at the same time, three more Canadians were picked up walking a road near Detroit. They too had draft cards. Authorities asked questions. Next day an immigration man walked into the U.S.O. lounge in Toledo's Union Depot, called out: "All Canadians step this way!" Eighteen young men answered the call. In four days some 37 Canadians, all hoping to join the U.S. Army, a "career with a future," were nabbed. All were deported...
...hand, we have Colonel Kilian, commander of the Lichfield Reinforcement Depot, who was convicted ... of permitting brutalities at the camp [TIME, Sept. 9]. His punishment was a $500 fine and a letter of reprimand. . . . Even now he is up for promotion before the U.S. Congress...
...last week's "circus" was different. The visitors came early, as usual, driving new or good used cars to the magnolia-shaded lot near the depot. Before long, there were some 500 cars around...
...former ballroom of Bad Nauheim's plush Park Hotel, the most shocking Army scandal of World War II reached its climax last week. Grim and flushed, his green eyes squinting belligerently through steel-rimmed glasses, Colonel James A. Kilian, for 26 months commandant of the notorious 10th Reinforcement Depot at Lichfield (England), heard an Army court-martial pronounce its verdict: not guilty of "knowingly" condoning the brutalities practiced in Lichfield's prison stockade, but guilty of "permitting" them. The sentence: a $500 fine, an official reprimand...
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 of them. Major General Robert McGowan Littlejohn, new War Assets Administrator, was out to get firsthand information on what was wrong with a WAA sale...