Word: ga
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sunny, warm December morning last week, at Fort Benning, Ga., Armored Force officers got their first look at the new bridge. Instead of boats it has collapsible floats of rubber fabric; instead of planks, parallel steel treadways, 15 ft. long...
Five Confederate veterans huddled around a radio in Soldiers' Home, Atlanta, Ga., listening to the news. White-haired Major General Henry Taylor Dowling, who had fought with the First Florida Infantry, sat stiffly erect and announced: "The Georgia Division of the United Confederate Veterans is at war with Japan." Four nonagenarian heads nodded in fierce agreement...
When a harassed, middle-aged soldier turned up at Fort McPherson, Ga., to report back after a ten-day leave, he was promptly tossed into the guardhouse. His ten-day leave had lasted 22 years, six months, 13 days. When he had finished his furlough in May 1919, he decided to stay home because he felt emotionally upset. Later, feeling better, he went back to the fort; his outfit had disappeared. In 1932, when he tried to straighten things out through the War Department, the Department coldly advised him that he was classified as a deserter, but "didn...
...Morris Brown and North Carolina Col lege for Negroes, both undefeated and untied, will face one another in the third annual Peach Blossom Bowl (for Negro colleges) at Columbus, Ga...
...Robert Ramspeck, D. Ga., ranking majority member of the House Labor Committee, was assigned to draft the measure. He said it would "prevent strikes in defense industries unless the employer wants to lose his plant or the worker wants to surrender his rights...