Word: unitized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newly-formed unit of UN, the Commission is currently in the organizational stage, and all that could be learned yesterday is that it will be composed of representatives of the 11 Security Council member nations and Canada, and that a Dr. Frey, of Prague, Czechoslovakia, will be chairman...
...unit was established on a permanent basis in 1922 by General Pershing, and during the war they were in the ETO attached to General Eisenhower's headquarters. In the course of their overseas tour, the men were in North Africa, Sicily, England, France, Belgium, and Germany. They returned from overseas on June 15, 1945, by plane in order to play for General Eisenhower's victorious reception in Washington and New York...
When war came, he joined the Air Corps, played in Winged Victory, then toured the Pacific with the "Winged Pigeons," an eleven-man entertainment unit ("we played close to a million men and were never fired on once"). He also wrote a G.I. song hit, Why Do They Call a Private, Private? and most of the material for the 27 impressions and seven character studies that make up his present repertory...
...ancient town of Albi in southwestern France. For centuries the people of Albi have blown fine glassware. To them and their peasant neighbors a year ago a Communist was no more welcome than the Devil himself. But last winter Albi's glass furnaces were cold. The local party unit explained the situation to HQ in Paris. Thorez in person cajoled his Pas-de-Calais miners into producing extra coal for little Albi. It was Tammany Hall with freight trains instead of Christmas baskets, and, like Tammany, it worked. Thorez presided at the opening of the glassworks and Albi greeted...
Most of the sum will go toward providing housing for married and graduate students-even though initial outlay on the recently-announced 800-unit Fort Devens project is expected to be small-while $100,000 is being allotted for a University Cafeteria especially for graduate students...