Word: gray
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actually, stripped of its more startling "whereases," the order was a rehash of some of the recommendations made last summer by Assistant Secretary of the Army Gordon Gray with the idea of strengthening the nation's debilitated reserves. The Truman order called for little more than: 1) better reserve training programs, 2) more facilities for Army and Air Force Reserve Corps and the National Guard...
...happen to be planning or debating a vacation trip abroad with your family* during the forthcoming year, the following account of TIME Inc. Bureau Chief William Gray and family's two-month sightseeing trip from Shanghai to New York City via Europe may serve to help or inspire...
After three years as head of our Shanghai bureau, Bill Gray was coming home. He decided to combine his return with a vacation for himself, his wife, and their children: Bruce, 4; Larry, 7; Margrethe, 11. Fortified by smallpox vaccinations and inoculations against plague, typhus, typhoid fever and cholera, the Grays set out for a 15,000-mile journey via eight different national airlines and a steamship company. Their departure from Shanghai resounded with exploding firecrackers set off by their Chinese servants to remove the evil spirits from their route. Says Gray...
...wearing a red skirt and sandals who politely informed me that the Government guest house awaited us. That was news to me-until I found out that he was looking for a United Nations man named Green. The Chinese airline attendants, having no Mr. Green aboard, gave him a Gray instead...
...vastest projects a sculptor ever attempted. It fills Oslo's Frogner Park (TIME, July 16, 1945), and promises to remain among the most controversial works of modern times. With perhaps five years to go before all of Vigeland's sculptured legacy can be cast, TIME Correspondent William Gray found Oslo citizens of two minds about it. His report...