Word: enlisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Across Canada 4,200 R.C.A.F. trainees were given their choice of transferring to the Army or going home to wait for a draft call. At Toronto's manning depot, only 126 out of 1,200 had volunteered. When an Army officer tried to persuade more of them to enlist, the airmen greeted him with shouts of "Why don't you call on the zombies?" From London came hints of more zombie trouble when Canada's turn comes to fight in the Pacific. Two of the Canadian Press's senior war correspondents - Ross Munro in Belgium...
...President Grumman shares it with a balding onetime professional basketball player named Leon A. ("Jake") Swirbul, 45, Grumman's executive vice president and production boss. Like Grumman, Jake Swirbul grew up in a small town (Sag Harbor, L.I. - pop. 2,517), also attended Cornell, but left to enlist in the Marines in World War I. Swirbul is big, hard-muscled and walks with the quick steps of a prizefighter. He is talkative, exact (Grumman is vague), with a passion for planning production to the last thousandth of an inch. These two temperamental opposites mesh into the smoothest team...
...Division: Major General Clarence R. Huebner, 55, who turned down a West Point appointment to enlist, rose from the ranks. He was a company cook at Fort Logan, Colo, in 1910, climbed to lieutenant colonel commanding an infantry battalion (in the ist Division) in World...
...from Wall Street. Jimmy Forrestal is a notable example of able businessman turned able public servant. Born a Dutchess County neighbor of Franklin Roosevelt, he went to Princeton, edited the Daily Princetonian, got his nose flattened in a friendly boxing match, was graduated in time to enlist in the Navy in World War I. He emerged a lieutenant...
...Triquet's great-grandfather fought in the Crimean War for Napoleon III; his grandfather fought the Germans who invaded his native France in 1870; his father, who emigrated to Canada, returned in 1914 to fight the Germans again. It seemed only natural for Paul at 19 to enlist as a private in the Royal 22nd Regiment, the "Van Doos...