Word: iii
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus last week the liberated area of Guam signalized its return to U.S. possession. Two days later. Major General Roy S. Geiger, commanding the Amphibious III Corps, added formality to fact by running up the Stars & Stripes at his headquarters on the island 3,800 miles west of Pearl Harbor, proclaiming U.S. military government in effect...
Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III, late No. i U.S. clubman, posthumously appeared by proxy in Manhattan's Surrogate Court. The claim of $231,750, brought against his estate after his death in 1942 by Muriel Paterson, onetime showgirl, who charged that Vanderbilt had guaranteed her $750 a month for life for acting as hostess on his yacht and for "special services" rendered, was finally settled in full...
...Scene III: the Sherman. The Wallace camp set to work in earnest. Their pre-convention count of solid, first-ballot votes had stood at 200. By Wednesday morning it rocketed to 350. All day long delegates streamed in & out of P.A.C.'s Sherman Hotel headquarters...
...flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele III...
...propagandists still bravely belittled the "buzz-bombs." But the world's scientists were not taking them so lightly. None asserted that the new weapon would seriously affect the outcome of World War II, but many regarded the buzz-bombing of England as a crude preview of World War III...