Word: ector
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Major stood up and said: "Our target today is one of great importance; Rome has never been bombed," Ector Bolzoni felt queer. It was a little hard for Lieut. Bolzoni to take in all the details of the briefing. He was thinking of the day in October 1941, when he applied to enter the Air Forces and was called before the examining board and asked: "How would you feel, and how would your family feel, if you were ordered to bomb Rome?" He had said that day: "I'm going into the Army for a reason...
...plane climbed out over the Mediterranean, Ector Bolzoni was pretty scared. He admitted as much to TIME Correspondent John Hersey, who was aboard his B26, kneeling between Co-pilot Bolzoni's seat and the pilot's. "Usually you picture a capital defended strongly," Bolzoni said. But gradually Bolzoni's interest in what lay ahead got the better of his nervousness. Hersey saw him hunch forward and strain to see ahead when they were still a good hour away from the Italian coast...
...column ad in the Wall Street Journal, fortnight ago. "WANTED FAST! . . . One man with $15,000 cash money or two men with $7,500 cash money each. . . . AND FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE PLEASE HURRY. I am just getting ready to dig a 4,300-foot well in Ector County, West Texas . . . and ... I don't believe there is even any doubt but that we will have anywhere from 50 feet to 100 feet of oil saturation and make anywhere from a 100 bbl. to a 1,200 bbl. well that will . . . produce oil longer than...
...beauteous Mesdames Ector Munn & Harrison Williams are U. S. chiefs for the pet French war work of the Duchess of Windsor and Lady Mendl: Les Colis de Trianon Versailles (packages and knitting for French soldiers; workroom in John Wanamaker's department store, second floor). The late John D. Rockefeller's heiress (granddaughter), the Marchioness de Cuevas, is a patron for Mrs. David Randall MacIver's American Association for Assistance to French Artists. The Committee of Mercy, Inc., founded in 1914 by the late Elihu Root and August Belmont, has been revived. It helps both French and British...