Word: requesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dial took pity on a point-short couple he had just married, lent them three pounds of sugar for their wedding cake. In Rochester, N.Y., a ration board heard from an applicant, "I'm getting married, so I need a new pair of work shoes," considerately marked his request "Urgent...
Congressman Engel looked on the Army's latest request with a jaundiced eye. With reductions in personnel, he estimated that the Army would have nearly $4 billion to spend this year "for cats & dogs or any other purpose they see fit to spend...
Retired from the Army in 1937 because of ill health, Chennault went forthwith to China, at Madame Chiang's request, plunged immediately into building up Chinese air power from a handful of outdated planes. His first big success came in 1941, when he formed the famed, spectacular American Volunteer Group ("Flying Tigers"), which shot down 297 Jap planes at a cost of 14 pilots...
...miles from the site of the palace which was Lobengula's only monument stands one of the many statues of Rhodes, staring toward the north ("My hinterland," he called it). Kruger's frock-coated figure stands in dry, hot Pretoria: at his wife's request, the sculptor has left his top hat hollow, so that it will collect rain for the birds...
This week, at the request of Yugoslavia, the U.S. Military Mission packed up and left. Next to leave is the Typhus Commission, because the Yugoslavs feel that the danger of epidemic is now over. Moving into high gear is UNRRA with a staff of 150, headed by a Russian. Most of the other members of the commission are Americans. The Yugoslavs would like 300,000 tons of materials monthly. What they are getting now will shortly be increased to 175,000 tons a month...