Word: harmonizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...louder WPB and the military clamored for arms and ammunition, the dourer became stocky, ruddy President Harmon Lowman of the Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Tex. His school had a half million dollars' worth of manufacturing equipment, and plenty of potential manpower-and nobody seemed to see the connection. Probably hundreds of other U.S. vocational schools were in the same willing but unable condition...
...coordinate #11 strategic bomber blows in the Orient, lean, affable Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon was doubling in brass as deputy commander of the worldwide Twentieth Air Force and as commander, Strategic Air Forces, Pacific Ocean Areas. For the present, he had to use his 6-243 (and occasionally some of his precious 6-295) to keep hammering at Sulphur Island (Iwo Jima) in the Volcano group, whence Jap fighters took off to harry 6-295 bombing Honshu, and whence Jap bombers took off to bomb the Superfort base at Saipan.* Later, when bases nearer to Japan had been...
...Harmon had no illusions about the task ahead. Said he at his Western Pacific headquarters: "This is no Gilbert-&-Sullivan war out here. . . . No one gives the Jap credit for being a resourceful enemy except those who have to fight him. . . . We expect that Japan will be on her feet and fighting...
Lieut. General Millard F. Harmon, commander of the new Air Force (of Army and Navy bombers), passed up the temptation to make a Pearl Harbor anniversary attack on Tokyo with his B-29s.* But the heart of the enemy's homeland was devastated that day far more effectively than the available Superforts could have done it. An earthquake shook Japan at 1149 and 1153 p.m., Tokyo time...
Married. Army Air Forces Lieut. Thomas Dudley Harmon, 24, twice All-America Michigan halfback, twice reported lost on duty; and Hollywood starlet Elyse Knox, 26, dressed in a gown made from his bullet-riddled silk parachute; in Ann Arbor, Mich...