Word: harvey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glorification of the "ash can fleet"-the homely little sub chasers whose depth bombs helped break the back of the German submarine campaign in 1918. Written by M.G.M. publicity man Ralph Wheelwright, who served on a sub chaser in World War I, with the collaboration of retired Navy Commander Harvey S. Haislip, produced with the approval and assistance of the Navy Department, which placed the remnant of the Navy's 500 World War chasers at the studio's disposal, Thunder Afloat is an able and reasonably authentic document. As entertainment it stands out from the ruck of service...
...John Harvey Bass, Jr., Joseph William Bex, Edwin Elberg Boysen, Curtis Antrim Bush, John Richard Christian, William West Cleveland, Jean England deValpine, George Worth Fowler Jr., John Sells Graettinger, John Peasise Graves, John Francis Harvey, James Sloane Higgins, Kenneth Day Johanson, Eugene Parr Johnson, Paul Sigurd Johrde, Walter Scott Long, Jr., Donald Frank McDonald, Thomas Herbert Malim, David Martin, Robert Glenn Martin, Arthur Taylor von Mehren, Robert Earl Middleton, Frank Gustavus Miller, Maynard Malcolm Miller, Duane Keith Ocheltree, Harold Clarence Passer, Dick S. Payne, Donald MacKonzie Pitcairn, Ralph Hubert Potter, James Allan Rafferty, Thomas Ben Ragland, Jr., Andrew Eliot Rice...
Though overworked army surgeons in World War I had to work thus, with a lick & a promise, great were the medical lessons they learned. Brilliant U. S. Neurologist Harvey Gushing, confronted with crowding thousands of head wounds such as he had never seen before, devised a dozen new brain operations by the light of a kerosene lamp in French front-line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed...
Long-limited, long-sinewed crew men row during the fall and winter to develop form and stamina for the gruelling spring schedule. When ice-breaking becomes too hazardous for the frail prows of the Crimson shells, Coaches Harvey Love and Bert Haines bring their charges indoors in Newell to practice in the tank...
Last week Pete Couch (who got his start as a railroad fireman), was elected president of Kansas City Southern, now heads both roads and will boss the merged system. Big Brother Harvey (who started out as a railway mail clerk) became board chairman of Louisiana & Arkansas. He also heads the Kansas City Southern board...