Word: establishments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pretty, did not even bother to set up a recruiting fund last week. It will continue to mail the monthly magazine Foreign Service to the fighting fronts, along with the membership cards ($3 for the duration) and ribbons which have produced such gratifying results. They voted $250,000 to establish permanent national headquarters in Kansas City. The delegates also...
...German Command is aware of these perils. Its aim today, according to a Swedish correspondent in Berlin, is "to establish the best possible front along which will be fought the last decisive battle...
...Germans let the first forces come smoothly ashore and cluster on the white beaches, then blanketed them with artillery fire from the near hills. At others, naval landing craft bore the troops landward in the face of continuous fire. Everywhere the men of the Fifth Army had to establish themselves on the beaches, make their first moves inland amid shells, bombs, confusion, fear...
Puzzled Plotters. The first problem was how to establish contact with the British soldiers. The two lady conspirators thought they had found the answer when they read an ad in the missing-persons column of the Nazi-controlled Paris-soir: "Jonathan Burke is looking for his friends and acquaintances. Address Military Hospital, Doullens (Somme)." Kitty insisted, against Mrs. Shiber's objections, that they rescue him. They...
When medical needs in the San Francisco Bay and Vancouver shipbuilding areas got acute, Kaiser rehired Garfield. The doctor's first step was to establish the Permanente Foundation in the name of Mr. & Mrs. Kaiser. The Foundation borrowed $550,000 from banks to remodel and enlarge an old hospital near Richmond (Calif.), whose population had jumped from 23,000 to 127,000. Soon the money began pouring back into the banks at the rate of $50,000 a month-the Garfield plan was raking in 7? a day from 60,000 workers, plus a percentage from the insurance companies...