Word: fingered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phrase. Nor did they much care, for well they know that it is an empty phrase, as yet completely lacking in definition. What they hoped was that the President would get down to business. In his opening syndicated column this week Airman Alexander P. de Seversky put a knowing finger on one long-standing omission: the lack of a high government body (like Britain's Air Ministry) "to guide the nation in the development of its air power...
...Finger has been in the army nine months. Before entering the army's college program, he was a personnel clerk at the 87th General Hospital at Fort Devens...
Portrait of a first-class Pfc.--Melvin Finger, who has finally returned to the comfortable obscurity of the Second Platoon, after more than two months in various positions of responsibility in Company...
...Finger has a unique record as the only Pfc. thus far to hold the posts of squad leader, platoon guide, platoon sergeant, platoon commander, first sergeant, executive officer, and company commander--from the bottom right through to the top. He began his unusual tour of duty July 11, and was busy all the time, relinquishing the insignia of command on September...
...tenure as company commander was the longest of any man's thus far--August 32 to September 19. Finger saw the company off on its furlough, and was held over during the reorganization period when the company returned...