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...World War I commission as a second lieutenant despite having been expelled from two high schools, in World War II led the fast-moving 9th Division through North Africa and Sicily, subsequently took the XIIth Corps across the Rhine and as Commander, U.S. Army in Europe, rebuilt the occupation army in Germany into a mainstay of NATO's shield; of a heart attack; at Fort Benning...
...part of Sulla's booty already crated for loading on one of his ships. Very likely a fire in the waterfront warehouse reduced its packing material to black ashes. In the confusion of war, no one noticed the statues. Weeds grew high, rubbish accumulated, and when Piraeus was rebuilt, a street ran over the place...
Golden Guano. The imagination and energy that rebuilt Grace flows from President J. Peter Grace Jr., 48, the barrel-chested grandson of William Russell Grace, who founded the company in 1854. Founder Grace, a scrawny, 22-year-old refugee from the Irish potato famine, began as a ship's chandler to the merchantmen who were flocking to Peru for cargoes of guano, the mineral-rich bird droppings used as fertilizer. With his profits as a chandler, he outfitted his own ships, established sugar plantations, and soon had created an intricate distribution network up and down the west coast...
...gratifying to learn that the building has finally been rebuilt. It seems that the conscience of the Bonn government still needs a great deal of prodding...
Died. Ralph Budd, 82, highballing ex-president of the Great Northern Railroad (1919-32) and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1932-49), an internationally famed rehabilitator of railroads who in 1906 rebuilt the line that served the Panama Canal, was a consultant in the reorganization of the Soviet Union's badly managed rail routes in 1930 and introduced America's first diesel-powered streamliners and bubble-dome cars; of a heart attack; in Santa Barbara, Calif...