Word: medals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...adjusted service rating card" will be issued to all enlisted personnel. On the cards men will score their 1) length of service since Sept. 16, 1940; 2) length of service overseas; 3) combat awards (Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Legion of Merit, etc.); 4) number of dependent children (up to a limit of three) under 18 years. The exact value of point credits based on the Army's poll will be announced later on. Highest ratings will be given to parenthood and service over seas...
President Conant has been awarded the Priestley Medal, highest honor of the American Chemical Society, it was announced Sunday. The Society will present the award to him at its annual meeting tomorrow afternoon...
Last week the President awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for heroism, to six of them. Two of the heroes, both marines, were dead. Their mothers came to the White House in their place. From El Paso came Mrs. C. Jane Hawkins, whose son, Lieut. William D. Hawkins, after being wounded on Betio Island, had fought on for hours-to die from Jap gunfire. From Worcester, Mass, came Mrs. George F. Power, whose son, Lieut. John V. Power, died outside a Jap pillbox on Namur Island, holding his left hand to a stomach wound...
...Navy thinks differently. Navy brass hats long ago ran out of glowing phrases (say they: "Roy Grumman is the hottest thing in aviation today") and E flags for Grumman. Last week, as a new token of their esteem, the Navy was reportedly seeking permission to give him a medal, the Meritorious Civilian Service award, something no U.S. manufacturer has yet received. The medal was as much for Grumman's amazing production record as for his superb planes...
...also found time to write such peculiar radio dramas as The Emotional and Psychological Reaction of the Women Who Killed the Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs. In 1937 young Auden received the King's Medal for the year's best poetry...