Word: inspectors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Make and Remake. After an interval in the U.S., and a promotion to first lieutenant, Krueger was back in the Philippines in 1908. The long-nosed, serious-faced young man with the dark hair parted dead center, brushed due east & west, was made a topographical inspector. As head of a mapping party, he rode and tramped up & down, back & forth across the central plain of Luzon. Few men today are more familiar with its military features than Walter Krueger. With the Japanese in possession, Luzon's familiar map requires some changes. Walter Krueger is the man to make them...
...Election Day, Franklin Roosevelt slept late, set out at noon in the warm sunshine for the oak-beamed town hall at Hyde Park. There, at the polls, where he gave his occupation to Inspector Mildred M. Todd as "tree-grower," he enthusiastically accepted a piece of candy from Miss Todd, entered the booth munching...
Jill Poole came by her skill through heredity as well as by application. Her father, tall, burly Police Inspector Harold Joseph Poole, has been ringing changes ever since World War I, today is Ringing Master of Leicester Cathedral...
...Newcomers George Schneiter, of Salt Lake City, and Charles Congdon, Tacoma aircraft plant inspector. They bowed to Hamilton and Nelson in the semifinals...
...Doolittle raiders Japan had no explanation within civilized military usage; this time, if its explanation was to be trusted, it had legal excuse. Japan's story: the three Americans, confined in a Manchurian prison camp, had broken out, walked for ten days headed toward Russian territory. A police inspector had stopped them, been told they were stranded German flyers. They had led him into the country, ostensibly to examine their wrecked plane, there had killed him with a kitchen knife...