Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the President named Will Clayton as the Surplus War Property administrator last February, the grey, hard-fisted Texan has been a prime target for left-wing New Dealers. The hatchetmen have accused Will Clayton, the world's biggest cotton broker, of: 1) planning to handle surplus property solely in the interests of big business; 2) freezing out small farmers and veterans in the disposal of Government lands...
Chief credit for getting so much over the Hump goes to grizzled, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Thomas O. Hardin, commander of the India-China wing of the A.T.C., who has driven his pilots to perform miracles of mountain flying. But some of the miracles have been performed farther back on the war's longest supply line...
...Wing Commander Robert T. P. Davidson, 27, of Vancouver, is a seven-year R.A.F. veteran who has fought in almost every theater of war, earned a D.F.C. Last week a report of his latest exploit came from Britain...
...division in the country was reflected in the government. In De Gaulle's Cabinet were two Communists, grey, wiry Air Commissioner Charles Tillon, handsome Health Commissioner François Billoux. But the Cabinet also contained two right-wing extremists, the young, athletic Commissioner for Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenay and Transport Commissioner René Mayer, a onetime Rothschild confidant...
Company II--Pitchers: Keith Miller and Mataset; catcher: Paligraf; infielders: Rafferty, John White, Stafford, Withrow and Stewart; outfielders: Ogden, Wing, Simone, Mills and Tom Smith. Final Standings W L Browns 7 1 Beavers 5 3 Tigers 5 3 Dodgers 2 6 Cardinals...