Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accordance with Order Number 24 received last week, 21 ASTP Signal Corps men left Friday for the Signal Corps camp at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey...
Misenhimer. In Fort Smith, Ark., at an auction where liquor went with purchases of war bonds. Prohibitionist R. F. Misenhimer applied his belief that an empty bottle is better than a full one, poured out a quart of Old Taylor, sold the dead man for $100. A few minutes later a full quart brought...
...crew are Electricians Myra Iorg and Thelma Watson, who once worked in defense plants; Carpenter Ruth Wallick, who has three brothers in the Army and says that she used to do all the carpentry around home; Plumber Marguerete Julien; Plumber Laura Derrickson, who once attended the Fort Wayne Bible Institute, now zealously preaches the doctrine of not throwing anything in the "heads"-because if one gets stopped up "we'll have to take out that whole doggone bulkhead...
Experiments with special wax sprays occupied part of the time of the botanists, but their attention was soon turned to the more practical question of how long the foliage would stand up under battle conditions. Research parties were sent to Florida and to the Army Engineers Headquarters at Fort Belvoir, Virginia to help compile the facts on camouflage to be used in the tropical and north temperate zones, respectively...
Working out of Fort Belvoir, the Engineers' mine and trap men fly from camp to camp with samples of German (and Jap) devices. After lectures and demonstrations, students are divided into two groups, go to work laying mines. Most of the mines have 2-in. firecrackers attached...