Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James B. E. Olson, resigned supervisor of the New York City Alcohol Tax Unit, awaiting trial for tax evasion...
...salaries of $20,000 a year. The $14 million in mortgage money was borrowed-after FHA backing was assured-from Minneapolis' Investors Diversified Services, later controlled by Robert R. Young's Alleghany Corp. While the FHA mortgage was based on a cost of $6,600 per apartment unit, the contract with I.D.S. specified that no unit would cost more than $5,500. I.D.S. got 6% interest for the Government-insured loan, and in addition was repaid by extra fees of $919,298, plus a $173,075 premium on the mortgage, and a management contract giving the investment trust...
...high-school senior, John Sherman was captain of the military training unit, president of his class, commencement orator (his subject: "The German Spy System") and class poet. In 1918 he went off to Kentucky's football-famed Centre College, and a year later he entered Yale. At New Haven (class of '23) he was captain of the basketball team, and was tapped for the elite society, Skull and Bones...
...years, from Soissons to Shanghai, Gates earned 29 decorations and four stars along with his scars. He fought through ten campaigns, commanded every unit from platoon (45 men) to division (20,000) in combat, and led the first big Marine victory in the Pacific (on Guadalcanal, where his 1st Marine Regiment killed 1,000 Japanese overnight on the Tenaru River). Perhaps his hardest fight came after the war, when President Truman and Pentagon brass tried to make the Marines a lightweight police force...
...begun an invasion of the North after victory at Chancellorsville in May, confident that a decisive victory on Federal soil would cause the disheartened North to sue for peace. Major General George G. Meade, with 88,000 Federals, followed him. The battlefield was chosen inadvertently when a Southern unit, foraging for shoes, ran into Union cavalry scouts at the little eastern Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg. Fighting commenced the next day, July 1, north of the town. That night the Federal troops, driven south through the village streets, dug in on a strong hook-shaped line on Cemetery Ridge...