Word: transfers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...older brothers were killed in action in World War II. Robert served in the Navy, later joined the marines. After he went into action in Korea last summer, his mother wrote to the President and to the Marine Corps, begging that Sergeant Ward, her only surviving son, be transferred from the combat zone. The marines' General Clifton Gates agreed to apply the "only surviving son" rule.* Leather-faced Sergeant Ward intercepted the transfer orders, went on fighting...
Minnesota's Gophers play host to the Crimson on the nights of December 29 and 20 in Minneapolis. With ten returning lettermen, a senior transfer star, and their own rink for the first time in 29 years, the Gophers will afford stiff competition. Former Chicago Blackhawiks star center, Gopher Coach Dec Romnes will oppose former Bruin star Weiland again. Last year the Gophers won only five out of 16 games...
Yale forecasts a loss of 600 men, while Stanford sees a 50 percent cut and Princeton 30 percent. The latter is planning to undertake more government research projects on a cost plus basis, and Yale will try to admit an unusually large freshman class and accept more transfer students...
...this: Russia has not enough steel to fight a long war involving major ground action. That is why Germany's Ruhr is a key piece on the chessboard of world strategy. Western Germany is now producing almost as much steel as the whole vast U.S.S.R. Transfer of the Ruhr capacity from Western to Russian control would change the world strategic picture more decisively than any other territorial grab the U.S.S.R. could make...
...stock, the majority of which is held by the Dollar family ($1,369,720 has been paid out, in all, under Government operation), that was not enough. Dollar filed suit and stopped the sale. His claim: the Maritime Commission did not own the line. Dollar said that when he transferred the controlling stock to the Maritime Commission in 1938, he did not transfer title. He had merely posted the stock as collateral for the debt that had now been paid off. Thus, A.P.L. belonged to him, Dollar argued, and the Government should hand it back...