Word: servicemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long ago, TIME made a special subscription offer to servicemen, writing them about the fabulous exploits of a mythical Captain "Hot Shot" Callahan. Captain Callahan, it seemed had everything it took to make small boys dream about their own conquest of the wild blue yonder...
...installment buying started drying up, he had an even harder time. Jarrell and his staff went into the service and left the company in the hands of Carmine McNeill, secretary-treasurer and only employee. At war's end, Jarrell gathered around him a hustling staff of young ex-servicemen to cash in on the booming credit business: Arthur Cade, Jarrell's right-hand man, is 32; two other vice presidents...
...local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, which had sponsored the memorial, held a dedication service for it anyhow. "If anything, we are being discriminated against," said a chapter member. Chapter President Mrs. A. G. Copland added: "We thought the colored people would like to recognize their servicemen with a plaque of their...
African ex-servicemen, desperate for somewhere to live, had set up a great semi-permanent camp on the veld close to the city. Pathetically they called it Tobruk, after the place that had seen a great Allied defeat and victory. Scott joined them. But Scott found that life is not a simple fight of good against evil, white against black. The encampment of underprivileged families was run by vicious criminals of their own race. When he tried to hinder them, they burned down the chapel made of sacking that he served. When their leaders left with the communal funds...
...entertain servicemen overseas Songstress Froman suffered near-fatal injuries in a 1943 Lisbon Clipper crash. Two years later, after 14 operations, she returned to Europe propped on crutches and toured more than 30,000 miles to sing for wounded G.I.s...