Word: leos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors who were caring for Pfc. Leo Kijowski at Brooke General Hospital in San Antonio well knew that skin from an identical twin is as good as a patient's own for repairing burns by skin graft. The trouble was that the doctors had no idea that Leo Kijowski, seared in a battlefield explosion on the Korean front, had such a handy relative...
...Leo F. Daley '27, president of the Harvard Club of Andover, will serve as Chief Marshal of the alumni at the 1952 Commencement, William M. Rand '09, president of the Alumni Association, announced last week...
...Administration was in the Office of Alien Property. For accepting a $50,000 kickback on a World War I claim, OAP Custodian Thomas W. (for Woodnutt) Miller was sent to prison. OAP gradually went out of business, was revived in 1942 as a Justice Department division under Democratic Politico Leo Crowley. Since then it has controlled as much as $500 million worth of alien properties seized in World War II, still manages 39 active companies and assets of nearly $300 million...
Another U.S. landmark, Los Angeles' Biltmore Hotel, changed hands last week. Its buyer: Dallas Real-Estate Man Leo F. Corrigan, 57, whose holdings stretch from coast to coast (TIME, Jan. 27,1947). Corrigan estimates he controls more than $500 million worth of buildings and land. Among them: 14 office buildings, 40 apartment projects, 55 shopping centers, and 15 hotels...
...Leo M. Harvey is a Los Angeles aluminum fabricator who doesn't give up easily. He was all set to get a $46 million Government loan to make him the nation's fourth producer of aluminum (TIME, Oct. 1) when Interior Secretary Oscar Chapman blocked the loan. Chapman did not like some things he had heard about the Harvey company's work for the Navy during World War II. Bitter at the turndown, Harvey grudgingly went to the giant Anaconda Copper Mining Co. with a proposal. He knew that Anaconda was eager to find a steady source...