Word: galland
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...chief casualty of the new labels is that old standby, the rabbit, which for years has traveled under a host of now illegal pseudonyms. Among them: Arctic seal, Baltic leopard, Belgium beaver, bluerette, castorette, chinchillette, erminette, French sable, Galland squirrel, marmotine, minkony, moline, nutriette and twin beaver. Maximum penalty for mislabeling: $5,000 fine and a year in jail...
...number of German experts who escaped to Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...
...dismissal, said the immediate reason was that last autumn he opposed a proposal to withdraw from Russia and concentrate on an all-out Mediterranean offensive. One change in Nazi command was apparently for merit alone: the Luftwaffe's new fighter chief, 30-year-old Gen eral Adolf Galland, was credited with upward of 100 enemy planes, had won the cherished Knight's Cross, and was now Germany's youngest general...
...sanctity at the age of 11" in 1922. She was a descendant of St. Louis, King of France. The special virtue of Maria Filippetto (1912-27) was "patient suffering for the love of God." Antonito Martinez Herrera (1920-29) was known for his "humility and charity." Guy de Font-galland (1913-25), son of an aristocratic Parisian family, made his First Communion at 7, wished to become a missionary priest but believed he heard a voice say: "My little Guy, I shall take you; you will die young; you will not be My priest; I desire to make...
Bill Smith fought his customary cool and businesslike match at 165 pounds. He floored Galland in the first round after shaking him with slamming hooks, which he always followed up with short lefts. Trying to add another knockout to his impressive list of this season, he missed several openings in the final minutes, but was awarded a close decision...