Word: utah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Patton himself, watching from the stands, stepped down from a gold laurel leaf-draped dais to kiss a corporal's hand. The recipient of this attention was muscular Corporal Brady Walker of Provo, Utah, who had just hurled a discus 142 ft. 9 in., to lead Patton's men to victory...
Exit Afoot. In Ogden, Utah, City Commissioner William D. Wood rode happily into a rodeo arena to acknowledge his selection as rodeo foreman, was promptly thrown by his horse...
...stirring stuff of pioneering, typified by the track-laying gangs of wild Irishmen. They drove the rails of the U.P. west to meet the track-laying Chinese of the Central Pacific coming east, stood guzzling while the tracks were joined with a gold spike at Promontory Point, Utah...
Uncounted weeks in action had made Pfc. Devon Hunsaker a ragged, unshaven, mud-caked infantryman.Slogging wearily back from the lines north of Davao last week, dreaming of his home in Utah, he saw a vaguely familiar face in the column of replacements moving forward. "What's your outfit, buddy?" he asked. "Thirty-first Infantry," said the newcomer, and moved on. A quarter of a mile later, Private Hunsaker slapped his thigh and exclaimed: "I knew I had seen that guy before. He's my brother...
Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser this week offered a solution to one top politico-economic problem of the Surplus Property Board-postwar operation of Utah's $200,000,000 Geneva steel plant. Kaiser announced that he is forming a "syndicate of western financial and industrial interests to be known as the Kaiser syndicate," to lease Geneva from the Defense Plant Corp. and operate it. The syndicate may include the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., now concluding a merger with Wickwire-Spencer Steel Co. Kaiser informed DPC President Sam H. Husbands that the syndicate also has "under consideration" plans to build...