Word: successors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from the south, circled Hafar-el-Ats's cool palms, slid down the desert air, rolled to a dusty stop on the hot sand. Out stepped a group of Americans led by bouncing, balding Major General Ralph Royce, retiring U.S.A.A.F. chief in the Middle East, and his affable successor, Brigadier General Benjamin F. Giles...
...weight of all battle supplies consists of oil and gasoline. The early desert campaigns convinced soldiers that old methods of distributing this colossal load under fire were too slow and vulnerable. In use this week in Italy, after a North African debut, was the Army's battle-tested successor: portable pipelines...
...China headquarters in Chungking came rumblings last week of a major political upheaval. While grey-gowned clerks delicately fingered their abacuses in the cold, smoky counting rooms, directors of the bank reclined in rattan chairs, sipped tea, and ousted their fiery chairman, brilliantly able Dr. T. V. Soong. Successor: his politically potent brother-in-law, Dr. H. H. Kung...
Governor Leverett Saltonstall wasn't ready with a successor. For a few days he took evasive action, sawing wood and saying little, on his Dover, Mass. farm...
...Successor to West Point-trained Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis Jr., who returned to the U. S. last September to organize the first all-Negro fighter group (three squadrons...