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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During World War II Weston had a chance to study his favorite subject on its home grounds-as a private, later a 2nd lieutenant, in the U.S. Army in Europe. He talked to heraldic scholars and added some valuable source books to his collection. He also found out that his hobby is a fighting subject-after a clash with a Belgian soldier on a blacked-out train over what arms should be assigned to the present wife of Belgium's King Leopold...
...Boeing Airplane Co. is famed around the world as the nest which hatched the Flying Fortress and the B29. But citizens of its home town, Seattle, think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...
...Pretty Good Score." By this time, Camden was noisy with the sound of sirens and the screech of skidding police cars. More than 50 policemen surrounded the Unruh home and began firing with pistols, rifles, submachine guns...
...latecomers. The number of absentees and sick has risen to an unprecedented height. In one week, for example, 500 employees of the State Cattle Administration were absent on sick leave. When visited by supervisors sent around by the state-controlled trade union, only one of the absentees was home-and he was celebrating his wedding...
...parts money and four parts acrobatics." The acrobatics began the next day. When the other reporters arrived, the Daily Express men shoved him from one room to another and jammed him into closets to hide him from their rivals. "I need," said proud Joseph van der Straeten, home at last in Knocke, "no man's money, but I was glad to have the Express's. Now I have one of their reporters here as my guest. He will stay as long as he wants. There is nothing like a sudden descent from a balloon to warm up international...