Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Madeleine Carroll, who gave up Hollywood glamor in 1942-at the same time that her husband, ex-Cinemactor Stirling Hayden, joined the Marines-and has served overseas with a Red Cross nursing unit, decided to quit the screen for keeps. She explained that she would continue with the Red Cross until after the war, then planned to care for the 200 homeless children she has sheltered at her home outside Paris. British-born, beauteous Madeleine vowed that it "is to them and them alone that I will devote myself," added that she had always been "at heart more French than...
...registrar (on leave) of the University of Illinois, and his small staff have already appraised hundreds of courses, expect to cover nearly a thousand before they are through. Sample: the Army Air Forces' preflight training program assays no credit in college, six semester-hours in junior college, one unit in high school...
...citation continued: "During initial assault phases Lt. Seaman efficiently co-ordinated action of his command with those of Naval Combat Demolition Units, Pontoon Causeway Units, and the off-shore traffic control unit to provide for the prompt clearing, organization and efficient operation of his beach areas . . . (Lt. Seaman) contributed materially to the success of the invasion and to proper maintenance of the Allied Armies in Southern France...
...unit here is to be only one of a series of Guidance Centers to be established by the Veterans' Administration in various parts of the country. The plan aims to help men returning from the fighting fronts meet their problems of readjustment to civilian society and industry...
...Pullmans. If they do, they would be stuck with a surplus of sleepers when seasonal traffic is light. Thus, five months after Pullman filed its separation plan, Berge last week fumed at the proposal, calling it "unclear and ambiguous." His main objection: Pullman Co. was for sale as a unit to the railroads instead of being sold piecemeal, car by car to any buyer who might come along...