Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Star Scout Daniel Flory marched up & down the streets politely ringing doorbells, politely asking housewives for old newspapers. In seven afternoons he collected in his little wagon the last ton of the 9,500 lb. of paper he added to the eleven tons the rest of his troop had collected...
...last fortnight the Japanese had amassed a great armada. According to the U.S. Navy's later communiqués, this fleet must have included at least five carriers, three to five battleships, many cruisers, destroyers and submarines, with troop transports to occupy points which the advance forces had battered...
...Germans. To the south, where the Russians had failed to take Kharkov, Marshal Semion Timoshenko's forces tightened their hold on positions very near the city. But holding on was all they attempted last week. In the Baltic, at Leningrad's rear, Russian dive-bombers spotted Nazi troop convoys on the move. The Russians said that they sank nine German transports...
...gone out for glider pilots; the first training schools were ready, others were on the way. Civil pilots, 18 to 35, ineligible for regular aviation-cadet training, were sought as glider students. Several large aircraft factories, a few smaller ones, had fat contracts to build big gliders for troop transports, small ones for training...
University of Wisconsin. An inland home of isolationism before Pearl Harbor, Wisconsin has since doubled its R.O.T.C., organized the first university ski troop, even staged a night "commando" raid, with 100 men in blackface wading ashore from Lake Mendota to capture a cottage on the lower campus. The daily Cardinal has started a campaign to endow a chair to teach the causes & cures of war. Late this month the university will break a strict rule to give an honorary degree in absentia to General MacArthur, utilizing short wave...