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...demonstration by the army on the drill of the firing battery will start the review at 2:15 p.m. on Soldiers Field. General Crittenberger will address the field artillery cadets afterwards...
...army will present four individual medals and several battery achievement awards to the winning platoons in competitive drill, in battery rating, and in academic standing. The individual award winners are as follows...
Thus, ten years, four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
Optimistic View. Two days later, Socony-Vacuum's Vice President J. C. Case took a different view of the basin at Socony's annual meeting. Said he: Socony is finding good oil at depths as shallow as 3,000 ft. and will drill eight to ten wells there this year. Result: Northern Pacific shot up nearly five points, and the whole market rose. Other oilmen explained the seeming contradiction in Williston estimates: Texaco's holdings are near the center of the basin, where the oil is more than 9,000 ft. down, whereas others...
While "Ted Williams Memory Books" attracted local signatures, the Marine Captain himself, and all his Red Sox teammates, went through a two-hour drill yesterday in Briggs Cage...