Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Price of Peace. The U.S. would also be serving notice that it will continue to support Chiang as long as his Government seeks peace and unity. That course would bring China actual help-the U S. would be prepared to send it military and economic advisers, to look with favor on China's requests for loans...
Unfortunately the Navy didn't have time to send many of these men through midshipmen's schools or even to indoctrinate them, at first. So these junior executives, bond salesmen, tie clerks and miscellaneous experts in their early 30s were commissioned as lieutenants junior grade or even full lieutenants. They donned uniforms, and it was hoped that some day they would see fit and be able to carry out the duties of an officer in the U.S. Navy. Many filled the bill; some, to the eventual discredit of the Navy, never...
...overcoat and muffler, mounted a sound truck and went out to hearten the strikers. He did not try to paint a rosy picture. He reminded them that no strike benefits would be paid by the union, but in time there would be soup kitchens and the union would send a doctor to any member who needed...
...trained men. Last week the Army and Navy underwent their biggest command shifts without audible clashing of gears. Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King finally resigned as Chief of Naval Operations-the job he had taken in December 1941, with the crack: "When they get into trouble they always send for the sons of bitches." Now his filial job was done. His successor: mild, earnest Chester Nimitz...
...other major jamming method, "Window", involves the seemingly simple procedure of dropping huge quantities of light aluminum foil from planes on bombing missions. It was discovered the small strips of aluminum, which is an excellent radio reflector, would, if cut to one half a radar's wavelength, send back a disproportionately strong echo...