Word: garrison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Lewis Edward Lawes, 63, famed, longtime (1920-41) warden of New York's Sing Sing* Prison; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Garrison, N.Y. Jailer-Author Lawes (Twenty Thousand Years In Sing Sing), a foe of capital punishment, was required by his job to witness 303 executions, bowed his head when the electric chair's 2,000 volts jolted out a human life...
...After months of continuous fighting and hard labor, G.I.s (though averaging five to ten pounds underweight) were in excellent physical shape-as fit as troops training in the U.S. and much fitter than garrison troops in Hawaii (who went a little soft...
...weeks the U.S. garrison had seen signs of resurgent Jap activity. A raft loaded with stolen Marine rations was discovered floating in Peleliu's lowland swamps. Then a Marine sentry fired on a band looting a warehouse of captured Japanese weapons, was answered with rifle and grenade fire. The Jap strength was estimated at 50, led by a lieutenant commander, with more coming in daily from nearby Babelthuap. Alarmed by the weakness of his small, lightly armed Marine garrison, worried for the safety of the 35 naval dependents, Peleliu's commander radioed for reinforcements...
Diamond Flush. In Berwick, Pa., Mrs. Hensyl Garrison absently dropped her diamond ring into one of the 300 bags of potato chips she was filling, shipped it off to an unknown nibbler. In Weatherly, Pa., Mrs. Emory J. Miller irritably attacked a clogged drain with a suction plunger, brought up the $175 ring that she misplaced 20 years...
...told the Congressmen that the U.S. would have to step in immediately with a loan of $250 million for the rehabilitation of Greece's ports, railways, bridges, for the purchase of industrial and raw materials to bolster Greece's economy, and for the support of a British garrison already there. The U.S. would not send soldiers. But the U.S., besides financial aid, must supply economic and military advice and full moral support. The Congressmen knew the alternative: expanding Russia would take over...