Word: branch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Information Office and will be interviewed shortly by Charles M. Dole, chairman of the National Ski Patrol System. Under the new system recently announced by the Ski Association, men accepted for service in the mountain forces may apply for voluntary induction or be drafted directly into this special Army branch without undergoing the usual prescribed training period at Fort Devens or its equivalent...
...which are dying from stress, shortages, inflation and war." Since Lend-Lease and the American Red Cross have taken over sending medical supplies to China the Bureau's efforts have been concentrated on three projects: > An Emergency Medical Service Training School at Tuyunkuan, Kweiyang plans to have a branch for each of the nine war areas, has five so far. To the schools the Bureau has contributed teachers, supplies (such as trucks, instruments), money. In courses as short as possible, 6,283 workers have been trained-about 600 Army doctors, 2,000 assistant medical officers (63 of them midwives...
...dice have galloped now, and you pray you haven't turned up with an aceydency. Don't suffer under the illusion that you have a decision about the branch you are assigned to. You have a preference, but the only big sticks you carry are your test marks, and experience...
...toughest obstacle to school consolidation in Illinois is its archaic patchwork of 11.957 autonomous boards of education (there is no state board), which are a minor but profitable branch of politics. Today their schools, even though they have only three pupils, get state aid based on a minimum of 18. But beginning next July no more state funds will be given to schools enrolling fewer than seven students. This, as well as the teacher shortage, should speed the trend toward consolidation...
...girl. The child's name was undisclosed. "I think Eunice wants to name it after my nephew's boy," Charlie told a visiting reporter and photographer. Asked what the boy's name was, Charlie said: "I can't recollect." "See yan branch," he said, pointing with his squirrel rifle, "well, that's the dividing line. No photographers can cross it." The newsmen went away...