Word: eighths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pentagon also announced that the U.S. Air Force has dropped more bombs in Korea than in the first two years after Pearl Harbor; the Navy and Marine air arms almost as many as in World War II from beginning to end. The Eighth Army has expended about the same weight of mortar and artillery shells as in the whole European theater during the eleven months from D-day to V-E day. And yet, during the Korean fighting, the enemy has grown not weaker, but stronger...
Michigan State took third, seventh, eighth, ninth, and 19th to win the meet with 46 points. Army finished second with 93, followed closely by Syracuse with 98. Fourth place Penn State had 109, Georgetown 187, Pittsburgh, 201, St. John's 214, Villanova 248, Manhattan 306, Rhode Island 321, Cornell 328, Rutgers 329, M.I.T. 351, Yale 356, Harvard 376, Fordham 390, La Salle 404, Princeton 451, Columbia 495, Colgate 519, N.Y.U. 520, City College 528, and Temple...
...front in Korea, the first snow fell. Troops were being issued the last of their winter equipment, and the Eighth Army quartermaster announced:. "No American Army, anywhere, ever began a winter better equipped or clothed . . ." In Washington, President Truman issued his annual Thanksgiving Proclamation: ". . . This year it is especially fitting that we offer a, prayer of gratitude for the spirit of unity which binds together all parts of our country and makes us one nation indivisible...
Finally, with Eighth Army consent, the ROKs gave up trying to win Triangle. The little infantrymen crouched in their bunkers, like dazed men coming out of a bad dream, and the battle was handed over to artillery. Back of the two battered hills, the Communists were believed to have an artillery division in addition to the regular unit artillery-some 200 guns in all. At week's end, the U.N. reported silencing half the enemy guns. The Red artillery fire had slacked off sharply-but that may have been partly due to lack of targets and dwindling ammunition...
During the 18 months he was chief censor and public information officer for the Eighth Army in Korea, Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees, 50, had more than a military interest in the coverage of the war. A veteran newsman himself (during World War II left as editor of the now defunct Tacoma Times), Reservist Voorhees kept a file on how the correspondents were covering the war. He shipped his notes home to his wife, who passed them on to a publisher. This week, for his extracurricular writing, Voorhees 1) had a brand-new book, Korean Tales (Simon & Schuster...