Word: lull
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Helsinki came more details of the Nazi plan to lose the war but win the peace. TIME Correspondent John Scott remained a week in Finland after the Germans took over, learned the argument which Nazi Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop advanced to lull the fears of Germans in the north. Cabled Scott...
Inductees' teeth are so bad, Major General George Lull told the American Medical Association meeting last fortnight, that if all the men with new G.I. dental plates were put cheek by jowl, there would be enough for 15 infantry divisions. (Last year alone, the Army Dental Corps drilled and filled 18,000,000 cavities.) The Dental Corps is still so hard worked that some stations have three eight-hour dental shifts a day and appointments for 4 a.m. are not uncommon...
Pressure for some improvement in the distribution of medical care-not necessarily the Wagner-Murray-Dingell Bill-came from the military doctors present: 1) Colonel Leonard George Rowntree pointed out that 30% of all Service registrants examined turned out to be 4-Fs; 2) Major General George Lull added that U.S. physical fitness has actually deteriorated since World War I, largely as a result of poor distribution of medical care; 3) Vice Admiral Ross T. Mclntire requested that the A.M.A. draft a "sound plan for medical care." To cope with this problem, a five-man committee (included: General Lull...
...lull was no lullaby for the nerve-racked Germans. Outside the Crimea, there had been no major Soviet offensive anywhere for six weeks. Swarming like ants all over their hundreds of thousands of square miles of retaken ground, the Reds multiplied and strengthened their supply lines, built new installations, brought up to the front great masses of guns, tanks, ammunition, food, fuel...
...After a lull during vile weather, the air war against Germany picked up in full force as 1,500 U.S. planes attacked Berlin and Brunswick, forcing the Luftwaffe fighter command into a savage battle which cost 125 Nazi fighters against 26 U.S. bombers and 19 fighters...