Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated, for example, that 100,-ooo casualties would require 600,000 pints of blood over a period of six weeks. It would take 17 freight cars to hold that many pint bottles. To distribute it to casualty stations the city would have to mobilize every vehicle with a refrigeration unit, from meat trucks down to Good Humor wagons...
...with a detachment of U.S. Marines. Facing eastward, he could look once again at a flat-topped ridge behind which lay his old home and his family's college. His job with the Marines was the interrogation of Communist prisoners. From them Hedge soon learned that a large unit of North Korean troops was using the college as headquarters. The Marine commander gave the obvious and necessary orders. As Hedge watched, a rain of shells poured down on Chosen Christian University, which three generations of Underwoods had helped to build. Refugees from the city brought back a tale...
When the first unit lined up for signal drill and a dummy scrimmage there were five changes in the team which opened against B.U. Rate and Paul Crowley replaced ends Dike Hyde and and Ravrehy. Buddy Lemay was holding down Paul O'Brien's center position, and tackle John Nichols was again on the offensive team in place of Bob Stargol. In the backfield Red Wylie was running as wingback instead of Dave Warden...
...Naval ROTC Unit at Harvard includes three categories of students, i.e., "Regular," "Contract" and "Naval Science," information on each type of student together, with policies concerning each follows...
...CONTRACT" NROTC STUDENTS are referred to within the NROTC Unit as Midshipmen for administrative purposes. However, they are strictly speaking, civilian college students who have entered into a mutual agreement with the Navy. By the terms of the agreement, the student agrees to complete the courses offered, to participate in one summer training period (now of three weeks duration and given after the Junior year in college), and to remain unmarried until commissioned. He further agrees to accept a commission if offered, and to serve if called by the Secretary of the Navy. At Harvard, "Contract" candidates usually first contact...