Word: nine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President did not say what islands they will be. But Chief of Staff Eisenhower said: "On Okinawa a garrison of approximately 33,000 Air and Service Force troops will be permanently stationed." The U.S. Navy has indicated that it wants to keep at least nine major bases in the Pacific. A House committee is now on a Pacific appraisal tour...
Preaching & Parties. The man who evokes this sentimental, semantic medley of adoration and respect is a little (5 ft.) youngish (40) bespectacled, homely, eloquent son of a French naval officer. Before the war Sartre was a relatively unknown professor of philosophy (1930-43). During the war he spent nine months in a German war prison, then emerged to play an active role in the Resistance (he served with the Communist-dominated Front National). Now he is France's most discussed writer: his temple, the respectably bohemian Cafe de Flore on the Left Bank. There he spends most...
...their break from battleship thinking. Of ten top-rankers who will be closest to Submariner Nimitz, four are high-octane airmen (King had only one); three are submariners; two are surfacemen but amphibious specialists. Only holdover, Admiral Farber is a battleship man. Among Ernie King's top nine advisers were six "turtlebacks...
When the doctors operated for what they felt certain was complicated umbilical hernia, they were amazed to find that the patient's self-diagnosis of "knifelike" pains had been literally accurate: there was actually a nine-inch table knife in his sigmoid. the curve of the intestine leading to the rectum...
Wrecked Dredges. But the real problem was the restoration or replacement of Malaya's 126 dredges, which are used to scoop up alluvial deposits, where much tin is found. All of these machines, badly handled by the Japs, are in varying states of disrepair. Thirty-nine of them will have to be completely replaced, which will take two years. Of the rest, only 41 will be in operation by next August while the 46 others will not be back in service until June 1947. Thus it will be from three to four years before the industry hits its full...