Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slender, young, handsome Marine Captain Horace W. Fuller of Milton, Mass., more recently of Guadalcanal, knew what he wanted. His voice shook as he told it to OWI's Overseas Branch in Manhattan. He was on his own, without official backing, but would OWI please do something for the men out there? They were lonely and very tired. The mail was not getting through as fast as it might. Could they be reached direct...
...Army physical at the central Chicago recruiting station consists of running an endless gauntlet of corrugated wooden booths, each dedicated to one specific branch of medical science. The psychiatrist, I remember, came somewhere between venereal diseases and athlete's feet...
...only been born in the same town (Beaver Falls, Pa.), but had been delivered by the same local doctor, and had used the same crib, which Midgley's parents passed on to the Wilson family. Wilson graduated from M.I.T. and became a major in the chemical warfare branch of the U.S. Army at 25. Frolich is also a graduate of M.I.T., like Wilson was a member of its potent Research Laboratory of Applied Chemistry...
World Chairman. Out of Governor Stassen's world parliament would arise a world council, its chairman selected by the parliament, its seven members then chosen by the chairman with approval of parliament. With a legislative body and an executive branch, the Government of the United Nations could then get to work on a world program which Governor Stassen had previously proposed (TIME, June 15) -including disarmament of Axis nations, a United Nations court and military force, administration of international airports and sea lanes, programs to increase world literacy and world trade. ("Only in this way can those countries with...
Physical requirements for the new mountain division are the same as those in effect for the regular Army, but men classed for limited service may find employment in this branch in some special capacities. "Members of mountain units are eligible for assignment to an Officer's Candidate School on recommendation of local commanding officers," the Ski Association has announced...