Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...startlingly sudden return of industry to prewar pursuits (see BUSINESS). To this end, he had called in Labor Secretary Lewis Schwellenbach, OPAdministrator Chester Bowles, others whose orders set the reconversion machinery into operation. The President had also seen three groups of legislators, and had pinned the Distinguished Service Medal on Secretary of State James F. Byrnes...
...each month of service, ten points for a dependent (but none for additional dependents). Points required for discharge: enlisted men 44, officers 49, enlisted women 29, women officers 35. About 307,000 became eligible for dis charge; 20,000 more could get out who had won certain awards (Medal of Honor, Navy Cross, Legion of Merit, Silver Star, D.F.C...
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave him a dinner and the Order of Blue Sky and White Sun. Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, commander of U.S. forces in China, gave him an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Distinguished Service Medal. In mass tribute, 163 grateful Chinese organizations gave him 500,000 Chinese dollars ($12,500 U.S.), a gold key to Chungking, an embroidered umbrella, a souvenir book and a scroll...
Lieut. Jackie Coogan, 30, Hollywood's onetime "Kid" who grew up to marry Betty Grable (and be divorced by her) was released from the Army after four years' service, mostly with glider troops. Acquired in that time: the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and a Presidential Unit Citation. Lost: more hair...
Flying down from New Bedford, Mass., Lieut. Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., D.F.C., Air Medal and Croix de Guerre, found LaGuardia Field all right. After he had let his two engined B-25 bomber down under a 900-ft. ceiling he radioed for permission to go on to Newark. LaGuardia approved, warned him of low visibility (about two miles), concluded, "We're unable to see the top of the Em pire State Building...