Word: southwesterner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teeth, per 1,000 men, were: 102.85 in Vermont, 2.90 in Arkansas. In the Civil War drafts, rejections for bad teeth were twice as frequent in New England as in Delaware and Maryland. Preliminary reports on 1940-42 draftees again indicate, says Dr. East, that "the southern and southwestern States will have the lowest rates" of rejections for bad teeth...
Last week General Lear urged his commanders to "kill the academic and unimaginative outlook ... so to train their subordinates that they are physically and emotionally prepared for the realities of war. . . . We will not find any Japanese in the southwestern Pacific who will permit us to go along with our eyes closed, our guns unloaded and our weapons buried beneath a mass of bedding rolls." He illustrated...
...command of the Army Engineers' big Southwestern Division, Colonel Robert Reese Neyland Jr., coach of the Eastern Army football team, formerly coach at the University of Tennessee...
...shareholders promptly withered. The price of New Haven common fell 50% overnight. Professional speculators took ICC at its word, with the result that Wall Street saw some strange phenomena: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific 6% preferred with eight months' earnings of $20.43 a share sold for 75?; St. Louis Southwestern common with earnings of $19.69 a share hung around $4 (bid); Missouri Pacific with earnings of $19.06 a share sold...
WASHINGTON--U. S. Marine and Naval forces, firmly entrenched in six islands of the Solomon group, have shot down seven more Japanese planes in hurling back two strong enemy air attacks on American positions in the strategic Southwestern Pacific islands, the Navy Department announced tonight...