Word: minutemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little factory, then called for what he needed. Businessmen donated steel barrels and alcohol drums, plywood, motors and parts from vacuum cleaners, small crankshafts from outboard motors. Employees volunteered their labor and worked all night. After ten hours the lung was ready for Rue Steel. The mechanical minutemen kept on, making seven more, and Reichart drew blueprints from which any small-town machine shop could put together an emergency lung...
...Civilian doctors should be organized as medical minutemen, said Dr. Edward L. Bortz, president of the American Medical "Association. Some cities are already making a start; but there should be countrywide organization under a National Emergency Medical Council, set up as an agency of the National SecurityResources Board...
...Minutemen. The Army also had some tremendous figures: for the National Guard, it proposed to keep 574,900 officers & men trained for the ground forces (double the prewar figure) and 47,600 for the Air Forces (a ninefold increase). The minutemen of the atomic age would man 22 infantry and two armored divisions, under an umbrella of 84 interceptor and observation squadrons...
...Revolutionary record is more aggressive in the other half of the Saltonstall line. Four Brookses (his mother's kin) fought at Lexington Green. Old Abigail Brooks served hot chocolate to the minutemen coming home from the Revolution's first engagement. A Brooks was a general at Valley Forge, and later governor of Massachusetts.* Other Brookses spilled their blue blood against the British at Lake Erie, and against the Seminoles in Florida. But the Saltonstalls fought in 1812 and 1861; one was cited for gallantry in the Civil War, as commander of an unseaworthy ferryboat converted into a gunboat...
There was no rain during the entire trip to spoil the lunch cooked out in the open or the view of Concord Bridge where the Minutemen fired the famous shot that was "heard around the world." Leaders of the trip were Lee Sosman '43, treasurer of the Club, and Betty Reichert, Radcliffe '44, president of the Radcliffe Outing Club...