Word: seaboarders
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...second of the two appointees, who also helped to fill vacancies erosted by the transfer of Major William D. Thornton, Infantry, to another War Department assignment on the Eastern Seaboard, is First Lieutenant John K. Darling, C.E. He will be the new School Supply officer...
Most of the division's men were from the eastern seaboard, particularly from the New York areas, and Allen's first impression was that they were smaller than the soldiers he was used to. But he soon learned that they were tough and good. In Scotland and England he drilled them incessantly for war: a 40-mile march in 24 hours, with full field equipment, was required of every unit. They trained in amphibious war (although they then lacked the landing craft which they would actually use, and missed practice in the precise timing of real invasion...
...from the first and second quartiles (final grades) will be invited to request special assignments for temporary additional duty for the leave period. These men will be given the opportunity to study, under orders, some special problem in Navy disbursing or supply at some Naval activity on the Eastern seaboard...
...Pittsburgh plant, as well as the limping Baltimore factory, worked night & day, while their supervisory staffs took cat naps on the floor. Army bombers took the last 22,000 lb. of production to the seaboard. By 11:45 a.m. on Friday, June 11, just two weeks after the first Army phone call and only seven hours after it left Standard's Pittsburgh plant, the final vat was stowed away and North Africa-bound. The whole thing happened so fast that no one even thought to talk about contracts and cost. But by last week, with the new invasion...
...Credit Corp. bill, which prohibited the use of subsidies to roll back food prices. Immediately the House strategists conferred, under the prism-hung chandelier in Speaker Sam Rayburn's ornate office. Telegrams were hurried off to more than 50 absentees, mostly in the big cities along the Atlantic seaboard. Members of the House Whip organization streamed in, got a broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already...